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title: In dis worl', lots er fokes is gotter suffer fer udder fokes sins. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: In dis worl', lots er fokes is gotter suffer fer udder fokes sins. Who acts: fokes, fer udder. 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 63

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In dis worl', lots er fokes is gotter suffer fer udder fokes sins.

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**Who acts:** fokes, fer udder · **What happens:** be, foke · **To what, where:** lots, sins

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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 (fokes, fer udder), 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:pg2306:20:63
# text = In dis worl', lots er fokes is gotter suffer fer udder fokes sins.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	worl	worl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	',	',	PART	POS	_	3	dep	_	_
5	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
6	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
7	fokes	foke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	gotter	gotter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	udder	udder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	fokes	foke	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
14	sins	sin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | fokes |  |  | dis worl's lots |  | suffer *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **foke** | present | fer udder | sins |  |  |  |  | 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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