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title: W'en dey passes now dey looks at de chicken-coop an' at der tater-pa… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: W'en dey passes now dey looks at de chicken-coop an' at der tater-patch. Who acts: W'en dey, dey. 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 59

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W'en dey passes now dey looks at de chicken-coop an' at der tater-patch.

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**Who acts:** W'en dey, dey · **What happens:** pass, look

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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 (W'en dey, dey), 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:pg2306:60:59
# text = W'en dey passes now dey looks at de chicken-coop an' at der tater-patch.
1	W'en	W'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
5	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	compound	_	_
9	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	coop	coop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
16	tater	tater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | present | W'en dey |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | present | dey |  |  |  | now | at a der tater patch; at de chicken coop | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at coop=Theme |

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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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