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title: Dog my cats ef de seetfulness er dat jug don't git away wid me," con… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dog my cats ef de seetfulness er dat jug don't git away wid me," continued Uncle Remus, with a chuckle. " Who acts: you, git. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 20

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Dog my cats ef de seetfulness er dat jug don't git away wid me," continued Uncle Remus, with a chuckle. "

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**Who acts:** you, git · **What happens:** dog, not wi, continue · **To what, where:** cats ef, me, Uncle Remus · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, git), 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:pg2306:60:20
# text = Dog my cats ef de seetfulness er dat jug don't git away wid me," continued Uncle Remus, with a chuckle. "
1	Dog	dog	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	_
4	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	compound	_	_
6	seetfulness	seetfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
7	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	jug	jug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
12	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
18	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
19	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	chuckle	chuckle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dog** | imperative | you *not said here* | my cats ef |  |  |  | dat jug *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **wi** | present · do-support | git | me |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **continue** *in a quote* | past |  | Uncle Remus |  |  |  | with a chuckle | 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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