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title: "DEY tells me you done jine de chu'ch," said Uncle Remus to Pegleg C… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "DEY tells me you done jine de chu'ch," said Uncle Remus to Pegleg Charley. Who acts: DEY, Pegleg, Uncle Remus. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 1

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"DEY tells me you done jine de chu'ch," said Uncle Remus to Pegleg Charley.

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**Who acts:** DEY, Pegleg, Uncle Remus · **What happens:** tell, do, say · **To what, where:** Uncle Remus, jine, Pegleg · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (DEY, Pegleg, Uncle Remus), 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:pg2306:62:1
# text = "DEY tells me you done jine de chu'ch," said Uncle Remus to Pegleg Charley.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	DEY	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
7	jine	jine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	compound	_	_
9	chu'ch	chu'ch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Pegleg	Pegleg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	Charley	Charley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | DEY |  | Uncle Remus *= remus* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen, in a quote* | participle | Pegleg | jine and de chu'ch |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jine=Eventuality |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Uncle Remus |  | Pegleg |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to pegleg=Recipient clause=Topic |

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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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