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title: I done had nuff watermillions yistiddy an' de day befo'." — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I done had nuff watermillions yistiddy an' de day befo'." Who acts: I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. the Florida Watermelon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. the Florida Watermelon, sentence 4

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I done had nuff watermillions yistiddy an' de day befo'."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** do, have · **To what, where:** nuff watermillions

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. the Florida Watermelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg2306:61:4
# text = I done had nuff watermillions yistiddy an' de day befo'."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	done	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
4	nuff	nuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	watermillions	watermillion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	yistiddy	yistiddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
9	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	befo	befo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | I *not said here* | nuff watermillions |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watermillion=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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