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title: Dey better be home pickin' up chips. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dey better be home pickin' up chips. Who acts: Dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. As to Education, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. As to Education, sentence 11

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Dey better be home pickin' up chips.

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**Who acts:** Dey · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** better pickin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. As to Education. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dey), 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:pg2306:63:11
# text = Dey better be home pickin' up chips.
1	Dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	pickin	pickin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	case	_	_
8	chips	chip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | infinitive | Dey | better pickin |  |  |  | up chips; home *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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