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title: Dey goes in, an' dar dey er tooken and dar dey hangs on twel you sha… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dey goes in, an' dar dey er tooken and dar dey hangs on twel you shakes de box, an' den dey draps out des ez fresh ez deze yer fishes w'at you git fum Savannah, an' you ain't got time fer ter look at dere gills, nudder." Who acts: Dey, dar dey, you, den dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. the Phonograph, sentence 19

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Dey goes in, an' dar dey er tooken and dar dey hangs on twel you shakes de box, an' den dey draps out des ez fresh ez deze yer fishes w'at you git fum Savannah, an' you ain't got time fer ter look at dere gills, nudder."

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**Who acts:** Dey, dar dey, you, den dey, des, Savannah · **What happens:** go in, hang, shake, drap out, deze, fum · **To what, where:** de box, twel, Savannah

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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 (Dey, dar dey, you, den dey), 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:pg2306:53:19
# text = Dey goes in, an' dar dey er tooken and dar dey hangs on twel you shakes de box, an' den dey draps out des ez fresh ez deze yer fishes w'at you git fum Savannah, an' you ain't got time fer ter look at dere gills, nudder."
1	Dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	er	er	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	tooken	tooken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	dar	dar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	hangs	hang	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	shakes	shake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	compound	_	_
20	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
24	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	draps	drap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	des	des	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	32	nsubj	_	_
29	ez	ez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	ez	ez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	deze	deze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	parataxis	_	_
33	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	compound	_	_
35	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	fum	fum	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
39	Savannah	Savannah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
41	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	_
43	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
44	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
46	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	39	acl:relcl	_	_
47	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl:unmarked	_	_
48	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
50	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	xcomp	_	_
51	at	at	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	dere	dere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	gills	gill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
55	nudder	nudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go in** | present | Dey |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hang** | present | a dar dey er tooken dey |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shake** | present | you | de box |  | twel |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent box=Theme on twel=Trajectory |
| 4 | **drap out** | present | a den dey | de box *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **deze** |  | des |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fum** | present | you | Savannah |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **get** | present · passive | you | Savannah *not said here* |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **look** | infinitive | Savannah *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at dere gills and nudder | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at gill=Theme |

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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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