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title: Who dat scatterin' my ingun sets? — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Who dat scatterin' my ingun sets? Who acts: ingun. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 7

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Who dat scatterin' my ingun sets?

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**Who acts:** ingun · **What happens:** dat, set · **To what, where:** scatterin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ingun), 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:pg2306:10:7
# text = Who dat scatterin' my ingun sets?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dat	dat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	scatterin	scatterin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	ingun	ingun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dat** | present |  | scatterin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** | present | my ingun | scatterin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient scatterin=Result |

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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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