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title: No longer'n yistiddy I seed one er de head men er one er dese Tempel… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: No longer'n yistiddy I seed one er de head men er one er dese Tempeler's s'cieties totin' water fer a bar-room. Who acts: one er, s'cieties. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, sentence 18

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No longer'n yistiddy I seed one er de head men er one er dese Tempeler's s'cieties totin' water fer a bar-room.

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**Who acts:** one er, s'cieties · **What happens:** man, fer · **To what, where:** bar room

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one er, s'cieties), 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:pg2306:64:18
# text = No longer'n yistiddy I seed one er de head men er one er dese Tempeler's s'cieties totin' water fer a bar-room.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	longer'n	longer'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	yistiddy	yistiddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	_	_
9	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
11	er	er	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	dese	dese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	Tempeler	Tempeler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	s'cieties	s'ciety	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
18	totin	totin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **man** |  | one er |  |  |  |  | er one er dese | tree rules |
| 2 | **fer** |  | Tempeler's s'cieties | a bar room |  |  |  |  | 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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