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title: Dey amble long, dey did, des ez sociable ez a basket er kittens, twe… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dey amble long, dey did, des ez sociable ez a basket er kittens, twel bimeby dey hear Mr. Dog talkin' ter hisse'f way off in de woods. Who acts: Dey, long dey, basket er kittens. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, with its
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 3

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Dey amble long, dey did, des ez sociable ez a basket er kittens, twel bimeby dey hear Mr. Dog talkin' ter hisse'f way off in de woods.

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**Who acts:** Dey, long dey, basket er kittens · **What happens:** amble, do, hear · **To what, where:** Mr. Dog

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dey, long dey, basket er kittens), 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:pg2306:6:3
# text = Dey amble long, dey did, des ez sociable ez a basket er kittens, twel bimeby dey hear Mr. Dog talkin' ter hisse'f way off in de woods.
1	Dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	amble	amble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	des	des	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	ez	ez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sociable	sociable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
11	ez	ez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat:foreign	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	appos	_	_
13	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	kittens	kitten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
21	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	talkin	talkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
25	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	hisse'f	hisse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
28	off	off	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **amble** | present | Dey |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past | long dey |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | infinitive | basket er kittens and twel bimeby dey *not said here* | Mr. Dog |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus |

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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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