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title: Dey kin holler Kansas all 'roun' de naberhood, but ceppin' a man com… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dey kin holler Kansas all 'roun' de naberhood, but ceppin' a man come 'long an' spell it wid greenbacks, he don't ketch none er deze yer town niggers. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, with its dependency tree and 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 45

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Dey kin holler Kansas all 'roun' de naberhood, but ceppin' a man come 'long an' spell it wid greenbacks, he don't ketch none er deze yer town niggers.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** come, spell, not ketch · **To what, where:** ceppin, none

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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 (man), 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:pg2306:60:45
# text = Dey kin holler Kansas all 'roun' de naberhood, but ceppin' a man come 'long an' spell it wid greenbacks, he don't ketch none er deze yer town niggers.
1	Dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Kansas	Kansas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	compound	_	_
10	naberhood	naberhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	ceppin	ceppin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	spell	spell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	greenbacks	greenback	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	ketch	ketch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
31	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	30	obj	_	_
32	er	er	X	FW	_	33	compound	_	_
33	deze	deze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	niggers	nigger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | a man |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **spell** | infinitive |  | ceppin |  |  |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme greenback=Manner |
| 3 | **not** **ketch** | present · do-support | man | none |  |  |  |  | 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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