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title: "Well, ef you done had de speunce un it, I'm mighty glad. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well, ef you done had de speunce un it, I'm mighty glad. Who acts: you, ef, Charley. 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 10

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"Well, ef you done had de speunce un it, I'm mighty glad.

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**Who acts:** you, ef, Charley · **What happens:** do, have, un, be · **To what, where:** ef

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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 (you, ef, Charley), 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:pg2306:62:10
# text = "Well, ef you done had de speunce un it, I'm mighty glad.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	dep	_	_
9	speunce	speunce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | participle | you | ef *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ef=Eventuality |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | past | ef |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **un** *in a quote* |  | ef |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Charley |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | 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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