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title: In de winder glass dar you kin see de flags a flyin', an' Jacob's la… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: In de winder glass dar you kin see de flags a flyin', an' Jacob's lather is dar, an' dar's writin' on de pane w'at no man can't read--leas'wise dey ain't none read it yit." Who acts: you, lather, man, none. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. His Pra
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 8

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In de winder glass dar you kin see de flags a flyin', an' Jacob's lather is dar, an' dar's writin' on de pane w'at no man can't read--leas'wise dey ain't none read it yit."

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**Who acts:** you, lather, man, none · **What happens:** kin, see, be, not read · **To what, where:** de glass dar, de flags, de pane w'at, lather

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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 (you, lather, man, none), 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:pg2306:59:8
# text = In de winder glass dar you kin see de flags a flyin', an' Jacob's lather is dar, an' dar's writin' on de pane w'at no man can't read--leas'wise dey ain't none read it yit."
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	winder	winder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	kin	kin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
9	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	flags	flag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	flyin	flyin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	',	',	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
16	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	lather	lather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	dar	dar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
24	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	writin	writin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	pane	pane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
33	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	leas'wise	leas'wise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
42	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	43	nsubj	_	_
43	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	acl:relcl	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	yit	yit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kin** | present | you |  |  | de glass dar |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* | de flags and a flyin |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flag=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | Jacob's lather |  |  |  |  | dar *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **read** | can | no man | de pane w'at *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent w'at=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **read** | infinitive | none | lather |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient yit=Topic |

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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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