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title: De gals, dey 'lowed dat hit wouldn't be no party 'ceppin' I fotch yo… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De gals, dey 'lowed dat hit wouldn't be no party 'ceppin' I fotch you,' sez Brer Fox, sezee. Who acts: dey, De gals, party, I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 38

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De gals, dey 'lowed dat hit wouldn't be no party 'ceppin' I fotch you,' sez Brer Fox, sezee.

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**Who acts:** dey, De gals, party, I · **What happens:** low, hit, not be, fotch, say · **To what, where:** dat, ceppin, you, Brer Fox · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dey, De gals, party, I), 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:pg2306:9:38
# text = De gals, dey 'lowed dat hit wouldn't be no party 'ceppin' I fotch you,' sez Brer Fox, sezee.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	gals	gal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	lowed	low	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	ceppin	ceppin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	fotch	fotch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
22	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
23	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **low** | past | dey *not said here* | dat |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dat=Theme |
| 2 | **hit** | past | De gals and dey |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | would | no party | ceppin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fotch** | present | I | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | De gals and dey *not said here* | Brer Fox and sezee |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic |

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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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