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title: By nex' mawnin' he got so he could sorter shuffle long, but he gun u… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: By nex' mawnin' he got so he could sorter shuffle long, but he gun up cunjun, en ef dere wuz enny mo' witches in dat settlement dey kep' mighty close, en dat nigger he ain't skunt hisse'f no mo' not endurin' er my 'membunce." Who acts: en, mo witches. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sa
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 59

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By nex' mawnin' he got so he could sorter shuffle long, but he gun up cunjun, en ef dere wuz enny mo' witches in dat settlement dey kep' mighty close, en dat nigger he ain't skunt hisse'f no mo' not endurin' er my 'membunce."

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**Who acts:** en, mo witches · **What happens:** get up, shuffle, gun, kep · **To what, where:** mighty close, dat settlement dey

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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 (en, mo witches), 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:pg2306:34:59
# text = By nex' mawnin' he got so he could sorter shuffle long, but he gun up cunjun, en ef dere wuz enny mo' witches in dat settlement dey kep' mighty close, en dat nigger he ain't skunt hisse'f no mo' not endurin' er my 'membunce."
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	mawnin	mawnin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	shuffle	shuffle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
19	cunjun	cunjun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	dere	dere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	enny	enny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
33	kep	kep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
35	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Vrnc|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
44	skunt	skunt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	hisse'f	hisse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
46	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	47	det	_	_
47	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	47	punct	_	_
49	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	endurin	endurin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	50	punct	_	_
52	er	er	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
54	'	's	PART	POS	_	53	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	membunce	membunce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	50	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get up** | past | en |  |  |  |  | by nex and mawnin | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **shuffle** | could | en |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **gun** |  | en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **kep** | infinitive | mo witches | mighty close |  | dat settlement dey |  |  | 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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