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title: Day 'fo' yistiddy I kotch one un um lookin' over de fence at my shoa… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Day 'fo' yistiddy I kotch one un um lookin' over de fence at my shoats, an' I sez, sez I: Who acts: Day, I. 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 61

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Day 'fo' yistiddy I kotch one un um lookin' over de fence at my shoats, an' I sez, sez I:

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**Who acts:** Day, I · **What happens:** kotch, sez · **To what, where:** one um lookin, de fence

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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 (Day, I), 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:pg2306:60:61
# text = Day 'fo' yistiddy I kotch one un um lookin' over de fence at my shoats, an' I sez, sez I:
1	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	yistiddy	yistiddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	kotch	kotch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
9	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	lookin	lookin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	shoats	shoat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	sez	sez	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	sez	sez	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kotch** | present | Day | one um lookin |  | de fence at my shoats |  | for yistiddy | tree rules |
| 2 | **sez** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sez** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | 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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