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title: Dey've been a goin' back on me too rapidly here lately, an' now I'm… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dey've been a goin' back on me too rapidly here lately, an' now I'm a goin' back on dem." Who acts: Dey, I. 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 9

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Dey've been a goin' back on me too rapidly here lately, an' now I'm a goin' back on dem."

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**Who acts:** Dey, I · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** back, dem

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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, 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:pg2306:62:9
# text = Dey've been a goin' back on me too rapidly here lately, an' now I'm a goin' back on dem."
1	Dey	Dey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	've	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	goin	goin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
13	lately	lately	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	goin	goin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	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 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | participle | Dey | goin's back and a goin's back |  | here |  | on me | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | I | a goin's back |  | dem | now |  | 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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