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title: Den I gits under de kiver an' tells my ole 'oman fer ter lay 'em ont… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den I gits under de kiver an' tells my ole 'oman fer ter lay 'em onto me like she was roofin' a house. Who acts: I, Den gits, oman fer ter, ter. 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 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, sentence 16

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Den I gits under de kiver an' tells my ole 'oman fer ter lay 'em onto me like she was roofin' a house.

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**Who acts:** I, Den gits, oman fer ter, ter · **What happens:** den, tell, lie, be · **To what, where:** ole, 'em · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, Den gits, oman fer ter, ter), 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:pg2306:66:16
# text = Den I gits under de kiver an' tells my ole 'oman fer ter lay 'em onto me like she was roofin' a house.
1	Den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	_
3	gits	git	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	compound	_	_
6	kiver	kiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
9	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	ole	ole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	oman	oman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
17	'em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	roofin	roofin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **den** |  | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Den gits under de kiver | my ole |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent ole=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **lie** | past | oman fer ter | 'em *= they* |  |  |  | onto me | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | ter |  |  |  |  | like roofin | 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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