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title: Den you'd a foun' me 'live an' kickin'." — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den you'd a foun' me 'live an' kickin'." Who acts: foun. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, sentence 13

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Den you'd a foun' me 'live an' kickin'."

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**Who acts:** foun · **What happens:** live · **To what, where:** kickin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. the Old Man's Troubles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foun), 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:pg2306:66:13
# text = Den you'd a foun' me 'live an' kickin'."
1	Den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	foun	foun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	appos	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	kickin	kickin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | infinitive | a foun | a kickin |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme kickin=Location |

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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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