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title: "I done bin dar, Brer Remus; I done seed um wid bofe my eyes. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "I done bin dar, Brer Remus; I done seed um wid bofe my eyes. Who acts: Some. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. His Practical View of Things, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 10

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"I done bin dar, Brer Remus; I done seed um wid bofe my eyes.

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**Who acts:** Some · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** bin dar, seed um

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. His Practical View of Things. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some), 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:pg2306:59:10
# text = "I done bin dar, Brer Remus; I done seed um wid bofe my eyes.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	done	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bofe	bofe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | Some | bin dar |  |  |  | Brer *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dar=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Some | seed um |  |  |  |  | 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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