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title: I done seed deze yer Arkinsaw emmygrants come lopin' back, an' some… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I done seed deze yer Arkinsaw emmygrants come lopin' back, an' some un 'em didn't have rags nuff on 'em fer ter hide dere nakidness. Who acts: I, Arkinsaw emmygrants, un, fer ter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. the Emigrants, with its dependency t
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 31

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I done seed deze yer Arkinsaw emmygrants come lopin' back, an' some un 'em didn't have rags nuff on 'em fer ter hide dere nakidness.

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**Who acts:** I, Arkinsaw emmygrants, un, fer ter · **What happens:** done, come back, not have, hide · **To what, where:** seed deze, lopin, rags, have nuff

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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 (I, Arkinsaw emmygrants, un, fer ter), 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:pg2306:57:31
# text = I done seed deze yer Arkinsaw emmygrants come lopin' back, an' some un 'em didn't have rags nuff on 'em fer ter hide dere nakidness.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	done	done	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	deze	deze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Arkinsaw	Arkinsaw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	emmygrants	emmygrant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	lopin	lopin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	'em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	compound	_	_
21	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	nuff	nuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	'em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	_
25	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
26	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
28	dere	dere	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	nakidness	nakidness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **done** | present | I | seed deze |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come back** | present | yer's Arkinsaw emmygrants | lopin |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lopin=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **have** | past · do-support | some un | rags |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rag=Patient |
| 4 | **hide** | present | fer ter | a have nuff on 'em |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nakidness=Patient |

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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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