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title: I got a gol'-mine er my own, one w'at I make myse'f, en I speck we b… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I got a gol'-mine er my own, one w'at I make myse'f, en I speck we better go back ter mine 'fo' we bodder 'longer yone,' sezee. Who acts: I, we. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 26

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I got a gol'-mine er my own, one w'at I make myse'f, en I speck we better go back ter mine 'fo' we bodder 'longer yone,' sezee.

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**Who acts:** I, we · **What happens:** get, make, speck, go back, bodder · **To what, where:** gol, myse'f, one w'at

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we), 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:pg2306:24:26
# text = I got a gol'-mine er my own, one w'at I make myse'f, en I speck we better go back ter mine 'fo' we bodder 'longer yone,' sezee.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gol	gol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	myse'f	myse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	speck	speck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	34	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
30	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	bodder	bodder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	34	advmod	_	_
34	yone	yone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
37	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | I | a gol |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gol=Stimulus |
| 2 | **make** | present | I | myse'f |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myse'f=Product |
| 3 | **speck** | present | I | one w'at and en |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go back** | infinitive | we |  |  |  |  | ter mine; for bodder yone and sezee; well *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **bodder** |  | we |  |  |  |  |  | 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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