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title: De man say ez how dey'd pass us thoo. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De man say ez how dey'd pass us thoo. Who acts: De man, dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. the Emigrants, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 22

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De man say ez how dey'd pass us thoo.

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**Who acts:** De man, dey · **What happens:** say, pass · **To what, where:** ez, thoo, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. the Emigrants. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De man, 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:pg2306:57:22
# text = De man say ez how dey'd pass us thoo.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	ez	ez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	thoo	thoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | De man | ez |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ez=Topic |
| 2 | **pass** | would | dey | thoo | us |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient thoo=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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