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title: W'en dem aches gallop back dey galloped fer ter stay, an' dey wuz so… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: W'en dem aches gallop back dey galloped fer ter stay, an' dey wuz so mixed up dat I couldn't tell one fum de udder. Who acts: W'en dem aches, dey, fer ter, I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, with its dependency tree 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 34

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W'en dem aches gallop back dey galloped fer ter stay, an' dey wuz so mixed up dat I couldn't tell one fum de udder.

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**Who acts:** W'en dem aches, dey, fer ter, I · **What happens:** gallop back, gallop, stay, mix up, not tell · **To what, where:** dey wuz, one de udder · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (W'en dem aches, dey, fer ter, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:52:34
# text = W'en dem aches gallop back dey galloped fer ter stay, an' dey wuz so mixed up dat I couldn't tell one fum de udder.
1	W'en	W'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	aches	ache	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gallop	gallop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
14	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	dat	dat	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
25	fum	fum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	udder	udder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gallop back** | present | W'en dem aches |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gallop** | past | dey |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stay** | present | fer ter |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **mix up** | participle |  | a dey wuz *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | could | I | one de udder |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent udder=Recipient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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