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title: Deze town boys can't play no more uv dere games on me. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Deze town boys can't play no more uv dere games on me. Who acts: town boys. 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 17

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Deze town boys can't play no more uv dere games on me.

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**Who acts:** town boys · **What happens:** not play · **To what, where:** more dere games

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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 (town boys), 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:pg2306:62:17
# text = Deze town boys can't play no more uv dere games on me.
1	Deze	Deze	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
9	uv	ultra-violet	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	dere	dere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **play** | can | town boys | more dere games |  |  |  | on me | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=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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