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title: I see you comin' 'long 'n I say 'Dey Daddy Ben.' — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I see you comin' 'long 'n I say 'Dey Daddy Ben.' Who acts: I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 21

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I see you comin' 'long 'n I say 'Dey Daddy Ben.'

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** see, say · **To what, where:** you, Daddy Ben · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. in the Role of a Tartar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg2306:55:21
# text = I see you comin' 'long 'n I say 'Dey Daddy Ben.'
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	comin	comin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
8	'n	'n	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Dey	Dey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | I | you |  |  |  | comin *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | I | Daddy Ben |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ben=Topic |

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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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