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title: "You year dat, don't you?" said one or two of the younger negroes. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "You year dat, don't you?" said one or two of the younger negroes. Who acts: You. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. the Phonograph, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. the Phonograph, sentence 11

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"You year dat, don't you?" said one or two of the younger negroes.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** dat, not do, say · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. the Phonograph. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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:pg2306:53:11
# text = "You year dat, don't you?" said one or two of the younger negroes.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nsubj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	negroes	negro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dat** *in a quote* |  | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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