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title: I hear Miss Sally say she's a gwineter stripe his jacket, en den I k… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I hear Miss Sally say she's a gwineter stripe his jacket, en den I knowed you bin tellin' on 'im." Who acts: I, Miss, jacket, you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 15

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I hear Miss Sally say she's a gwineter stripe his jacket, en den I knowed you bin tellin' on 'im."

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**Who acts:** I, Miss, jacket, you · **What happens:** hear, say, be, stripe, knowe, bin · **To what, where:** gwineter, tellin, im · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Miss, jacket, you), 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:pg2306:22:15
# text = I hear Miss Sally say she's a gwineter stripe his jacket, en den I knowed you bin tellin' on 'im."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
10	stripe	stripe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	knowed	knowe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
20	tellin	tellin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Miss |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Miss | a gwineter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stripe** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **knowe** | past | boy's jacket and en den |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **bin** | present | you | tellin |  | im |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tellin=Theme on im=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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