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title: De ole 'oman sont 'er ter school las' year, an' now we dassent hardl… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De ole 'oman sont 'er ter school las' year, an' now we dassent hardly ax 'er fer ter kyar de washin' home. Who acts: we. 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 19

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De ole 'oman sont 'er ter school las' year, an' now we dassent hardly ax 'er fer ter kyar de washin' home.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** dassent

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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 (we), 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:pg2306:63:19
# text = De ole 'oman sont 'er ter school las' year, an' now we dassent hardly ax 'er fer ter kyar de washin' home.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	ole	ole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	oman	oman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	sont	sont	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	nsubj	_	_
8	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	las	la	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	dassent	dassent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
19	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	er	er	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
24	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	kyar	kyar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
26	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	conj	_	_
27	washin	washin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dassent** |  | we |  |  |  | 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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