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title: "'Git on my back, little Jack Sparrer, kaze I'm de'f in one year en… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Git on my back, little Jack Sparrer, kaze I'm de'f in one year en I can't hear out'n de udder.' Who acts: Git, little boy. 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 clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 66

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"'Git on my back, little Jack Sparrer, kaze I'm de'f in one year en I can't hear out'n de udder.'

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**Who acts:** Git, little boy · **What happens:** be, not hear · **To what, where:** de'f, one year en, out'n udder

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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 (Git, little boy), 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:pg2306:22:66
# text = "'Git on my back, little Jack Sparrer, kaze I'm de'f in one year en I can't hear out'n de udder.'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	Sparrer	Sparrer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	de'f	de'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	out'n	out'n	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	amod	_	_
25	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	flat	_	_
26	udder	udder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	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* | present | Git on my back  little Jack and kaze | de'f |  | one year en |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **hear** *in a quote* | can | the little boy *= boy* | out'n udder |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer udder=Stimulus |

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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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