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title: "Pear ter me like eve'ybody done year 'bout dat. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Pear ter me like eve'ybody done year 'bout dat. Who acts: eve'ybody. 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 4

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"Pear ter me like eve'ybody done year 'bout dat.

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**Who acts:** eve'ybody · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** year bout dat

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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 (eve'ybody), 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:pg2306:56:4
# text = "Pear ter me like eve'ybody done year 'bout dat.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Pear	pear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	eve'ybody	eve'ybody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | participle | eve'ybody *not said here* | year bout dat |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dat=Eventuality |

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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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