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title: "'I been ter see my ole 'oman, en she's a sinkin',' sezee. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'I been ter see my ole 'oman, en she's a sinkin',' sezee. Who acts: Present'y, oman. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 21

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"'I been ter see my ole 'oman, en she's a sinkin',' sezee.

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**Who acts:** Present'y, oman · **What happens:** be, see · **To what, where:** ter, ole

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Present'y, oman), 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:pg2306:20:21
# text = "'I been ter see my ole 'oman, en she's a sinkin',' sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	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	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
5	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	ole	ole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	oman	oman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sinkin	sinkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	',	',	PART	POS	_	16	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
19	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | participle |  | ter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | Present'y | my ole |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ole=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | oman and en |  |  |  |  | 's a sinkin and sezee | 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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