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title: I got wuk lyin''roun' yer dat's des natchully gittin' moldy." — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I got wuk lyin''roun' yer dat's des natchully gittin' moldy." Who acts: I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 18

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I got wuk lyin''roun' yer dat's des natchully gittin' moldy."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** get · **To what, where:** wuk lyin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg2306:28:18
# text = I got wuk lyin''roun' yer dat's des natchully gittin' moldy."
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	wuk	wuk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lyin	lyin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	''	''	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
12	natchully	natchully	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	gittin	gittin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	moldy	moldy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	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 | wuk lyin |  |  |  |  | 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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