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title: Dey done got so dey'll look over in de yard, an' nex' news you know… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dey done got so dey'll look over in de yard, an' nex' news you know dey'll be tryin' fer ter scrape up 'quaintence wid de dog. Who acts: Dey, nex news, fer ter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 58

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Dey done got so dey'll look over in de yard, an' nex' news you know dey'll be tryin' fer ter scrape up 'quaintence wid de dog.

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**Who acts:** Dey, nex news, fer ter · **What happens:** do, get, look over, know, be, scrape up · **To what, where:** Dey, tryin, quaintence wid · **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 (Dey, nex news, fer ter), 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:pg2306:60:58
# text = Dey done got so dey'll look over in de yard, an' nex' news you know dey'll be tryin' fer ter scrape up 'quaintence wid de dog.
1	Dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	tryin	tryin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
26	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	scrape	scrape	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	quaintence	quaintence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	compound	_	_
33	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle |  | Dey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | past | Dey |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **look over** | future | dey |  |  |  |  | in de yard; over *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in yard=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | present | a nex news |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is a** | future | dey | tryin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **scrape up** | present | fer ter | quaintence wid and de dog |  |  |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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