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title: "We er gwine down in de naberhoods er Tallypoosy, an we ain't makin'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "We er gwine down in de naberhoods er Tallypoosy, an we ain't makin' no fuss 'bout it, nudder." Who acts: We. 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 8

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"We er gwine down in de naberhoods er Tallypoosy, an we ain't makin' no fuss 'bout it, nudder."

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** gwine down, not be · **To what, where:** de naberhoods, makin

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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 (We), 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:pg2306:57:8
# text = "We er gwine down in de naberhoods er Tallypoosy, an we ain't makin' no fuss 'bout it, nudder."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	er	er	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	gwine	gwine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	compound	_	_
8	naberhoods	naberhood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	er	er	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Tallypoosy	Tallypoosy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	makin	makin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	fuss	fuss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	bout	bout	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	nudder	nudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gwine down** *in a quote* |  | We |  |  | de naberhoods er Tallypoosy and a makin and nudder |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | we | a makin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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