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title: Dere wuz two un um, an' dey went long gigglin' an' laffin' like a ne… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dere wuz two un um, an' dey went long gigglin' an' laffin' like a nes'ful er yaller-hammers. Who acts: dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. the Fourth of July, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 22

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Dere wuz two un um, an' dey went long gigglin' an' laffin' like a nes'ful er yaller-hammers.

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**Who acts:** dey · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** long gigglin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. the Fourth of July. 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:pg2306:67:22
# text = Dere wuz two un um, an' dey went long gigglin' an' laffin' like a nes'ful er yaller-hammers.
1	Dere	Dere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
4	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
9	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	gigglin	gigglin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	laffin	laffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
20	nes'ful	nes'ful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
21	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
22	yaller	yaller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	hammers	hammer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | dey | long gigglin |  |  |  | like a nes'ful er yaller hammers | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gigglin=Theme |

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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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