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title: In dem times we 'uz all un us black; we 'uz all niggers tergedder, e… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: In dem times we 'uz all un us black; we 'uz all niggers tergedder, en 'cordin' ter all de 'counts w'at I years fokes 'uz gittin' 'long 'bout ez well in dem days ez dey is now. Who acts: niggers tergedder, I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIII. Why 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black, sentence 15

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In dem times we 'uz all un us black; we 'uz all niggers tergedder, en 'cordin' ter all de 'counts w'at I years fokes 'uz gittin' 'long 'bout ez well in dem days ez dey is now.

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**Who acts:** niggers tergedder, I · **What happens:** count, bout, be · **To what, where:** w'at

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (niggers tergedder, I), 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:pg2306:36:15
# text = In dem times we 'uz all un us black; we 'uz all niggers tergedder, en 'cordin' ter all de 'counts w'at I years fokes 'uz gittin' 'long 'bout ez well in dem days ez dey is now.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	uz	uz	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	dep	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
8	un	un	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	reparandum	_	_
9	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	conj	_	_
10	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	uz	uz	X	FW	_	27	dep	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
16	niggers	nigger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	compound	_	_
17	tergedder	tergedder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	cordin	cordin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
28	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
30	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
31	fokes	foke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod:poss	_	_
32	'	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	uz	uz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	gittin	gittin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
36	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
40	ez	ez	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	39	advmod	_	_
41	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	40	fixed	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
45	ez	ez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	_
47	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
48	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	47	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **count** | present | all niggers tergedder ter all de and en | w'at |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent w'at=Theme |
| 2 | **bout** |  | I |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | present |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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