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title: I done bin tampered wid twel plum' down ter de sap sucker'll set on… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I done bin tampered wid twel plum' down ter de sap sucker'll set on a log en sassy me. Who acts: I, bin, sap sucker. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 44

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I done bin tampered wid twel plum' down ter de sap sucker'll set on a log en sassy me.

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**Who acts:** I, bin, sap sucker · **What happens:** done, tamper, set · **To what, where:** bin, wid twel plum, me, en sassy

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, bin, sap sucker), 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:pg2306:11:44
# text = I done bin tampered wid twel plum' down ter de sap sucker'll set on a log en sassy me.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	done	done	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	tampered	tamper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	plum	plum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	sap	SAP	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	sucker	sucker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	sassy	sassy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **done** | present | I | bin |  |  |  | ter *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tamper** | participle | bin *not said here* | wid twel plum |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **set** | future | de's sap sucker | me |  | a en sassy |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme on sassy=Destination |

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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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