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title: "'Kase ef dey is, you k'n des put my name down wid de migrashun nigg… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Kase ef dey is, you k'n des put my name down wid de migrashun niggers." Who acts: Kase ef, my. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. a Case of Measles, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 30

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"'Kase ef dey is, you k'n des put my name down wid de migrashun niggers."

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**Who acts:** Kase ef, my · **What happens:** be, put down, name · **To what, where:** Kase ef, name

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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 (Kase ef, my), 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:pg2306:56:30
# text = "'Kase ef dey is, you k'n des put my name down wid de migrashun niggers."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Kase	Kase	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	flat:foreign	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	k'n	k'n	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	conj	_	_
10	des	des	X	FW	_	9	flat:foreign	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
15	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	compound	_	_
17	migrashun	migrashun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	niggers	nigger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | Kase ef |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **put down** *in a quote* | infinitive | Kase ef | my name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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