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title: Hit got so dat fokes in de settlement didn't have no peace. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hit got so dat fokes in de settlement didn't have no peace. Who acts: Hit, dat fokes. 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 51

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Hit got so dat fokes in de settlement didn't have no peace.

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**Who acts:** Hit, dat fokes · **What happens:** get, not have · **To what, where:** peace

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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 (Hit, dat fokes), 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:pg2306:34:51
# text = Hit got so dat fokes in de settlement didn't have no peace.
1	Hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
4	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fokes	foke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	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 | Hit |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **have** | past · do-support | dat fokes in de settlement | no peace |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient |

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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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