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title: But dish yere nigger w'at I'm tellin' you 'bout, he kyo'd his brer d… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: But dish yere nigger w'at I'm tellin' you 'bout, he kyo'd his brer de ve'y fus pass he made at him. Who acts: nigger w'at, W'at. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 50

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But dish yere nigger w'at I'm tellin' you 'bout, he kyo'd his brer de ve'y fus pass he made at him.

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**Who acts:** nigger w'at, W'at · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** tellin, ve'y fus pass

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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 (nigger w'at, W'at), 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:pg2306:34:50
# text = But dish yere nigger w'at I'm tellin' you 'bout, he kyo'd his brer de ve'y fus pass he made at him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	yere	yere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	tellin	tellin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	conj	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	kyo	kyo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	brer	brer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	flat:foreign	_	_
20	ve'y	ve'y	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	fus	fus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	pass	pass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | nigger w'at | tellin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | W'at | ve'y fus pass *not said here* |  |  |  | at kyo | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pass=Product |

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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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