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title: I know'd a nigger w'ich his brer wuz a witch, kaze he up'n tole me h… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I know'd a nigger w'ich his brer wuz a witch, kaze he up'n tole me how he tuck'n kyo'd 'im; en he kyo'd 'im good, mon." Who acts: I, Remus, kyo, en kyo. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 43

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I know'd a nigger w'ich his brer wuz a witch, kaze he up'n tole me how he tuck'n kyo'd 'im; en he kyo'd 'im good, mon."

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**Who acts:** I, Remus, kyo, en kyo · **What happens:** know, tole, im, kyo, ' · **To what, where:** me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Remus, kyo, en kyo), 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:pg2306:34:43
# text = I know'd a nigger w'ich his brer wuz a witch, kaze he up'n tole me how he tuck'n kyo'd 'im; en he kyo'd 'im good, mon."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'd	'd	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	w'ich	w'ich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	brer	br	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	up'n	up'n	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	tole	tole	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
20	tuck'n	tuck'n	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	kyo	kyo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	im	im	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	kyo	kyo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	'	'	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	im	im	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	mon.	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  | 'd a nigger w'ich and Remus's brer wuz  a witch and kaze | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tole** | infinitive | Remus | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **im** | would | kyo |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **kyo** |  | Remus |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **'** | would | en kyo |  |  |  |  | good *property* | 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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