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title: "Ole Molly Har', W'at you doin' dar, Settin' in de cornder Smokin' y… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Ole Molly Har', W'at you doin' dar, Settin' in de cornder Smokin' yo' seegyar?" Who acts: yo. 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 clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 4

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"Ole Molly Har', W'at you doin' dar, Settin' in de cornder Smokin' yo' seegyar?"

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**Who acts:** yo · **What happens:** seegyar · **To what, where:** de cornder

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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 (yo), 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:pg2306:9:4
# text = "Ole Molly Har', W'at you doin' dar, Settin' in de cornder Smokin' yo' seegyar?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Molly	Molly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	Har	Har	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	',	',	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
6	W'at	W'at	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
8	doin	doin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Settin	Settin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	compound	_	_
16	cornder	cornder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
17	Smokin	Smokin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	seegyar	seegyar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seegyar** *in a quote* |  | Smokin's yo |  |  | de cornder |  |  | 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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