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title: Dey tells me 'roun' town dat chilluns don't git hurted wid de meezle… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dey tells me 'roun' town dat chilluns don't git hurted wid de meezles, w'ich ef dey don't I wanter be a baby de nex' time dey hits dis place. Who acts: Dey, chilluns, I, nex time dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. a Case of Measles, with its depen
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 25

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Dey tells me 'roun' town dat chilluns don't git hurted wid de meezles, w'ich ef dey don't I wanter be a baby de nex' time dey hits dis place.

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**Who acts:** Dey, chilluns, I, nex time dey · **What happens:** tell, not git, hurte, not be, hit · **To what, where:** roun town, me, hurted wid de meezles, baby, dis place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. a Case of Measles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dey, chilluns, I, nex time 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:pg2306:56:25
# text = Dey tells me 'roun' town dat chilluns don't git hurted wid de meezles, w'ich ef dey don't I wanter be a baby de nex' time dey hits dis place.
1	Dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	dat	dat	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	chilluns	chillun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	git	git	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
13	hurted	hurte	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
14	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	compound	_	_
16	meezles	meezle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	w'ich	w'ich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	wanter	wanter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
28	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	29	compound	_	_
29	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	hits	hit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
34	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Dey | roun town | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient town=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **git** | present · do-support | chilluns | hurted wid de meezles and ef dey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hurte** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | present · do-support | I | a baby |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hit** | present | nex time dey | dis place |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme place=Co-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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