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title: En w'en you bin cas'n shadders long ez de ole nigger, den you'll fin… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: En w'en you bin cas'n shadders long ez de ole nigger, den you'll fine out who's w'ich, en w'ich's who." Who acts: you, ez, long de ole nigger. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 12

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En w'en you bin cas'n shadders long ez de ole nigger, den you'll fine out who's w'ich, en w'ich's who."

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**Who acts:** you, ez, long de ole nigger · **What happens:** bin, nigger, fine out, be · **To what, where:** En w'en, w'ich

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ez, long de ole nigger), 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:pg2306:31:12
# text = En w'en you bin cas'n shadders long ez de ole nigger, den you'll fine out who's w'ich, en w'ich's who."
1	En	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	cas'n	cas'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	shadders	shadder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	ez	ez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	nsubj	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	compound	_	_
10	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	fine	fine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	w'ich	w'ich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	w'ich	w'ich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present | you | En w'en |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **nigger** |  | ez |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fine out** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | long de ole nigger and den and w'ich and en w'ich | w'ich |  |  |  |  | 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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