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title: "'I ain't got holt er no stump root, en I is got holt er you.' — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'I ain't got holt er no stump root, en I is got holt er you.' Who acts: Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 34

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"'I ain't got holt er no stump root, en I is got holt er you.'

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**Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** not get, get · **To what, where:** Brer

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer), 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:pg2306:15:34
# text = "'I ain't got holt er no stump root, en I is got holt er you.'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	amod	_	_
7	holt	holt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	er	er	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
10	stump	stump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	holt	holt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	er	er	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | present · passive | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | Brer |  |  |  | you *obl* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary holt=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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