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title: "De Injun en de Chinee got ter be 'counted 'long er de merlatter. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "De Injun en de Chinee got ter be 'counted 'long er de merlatter. Who acts: Injun en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black, sentence 20

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"De Injun en de Chinee got ter be 'counted 'long er de merlatter.

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**Who acts:** Injun en · **What happens:** get, count, be · **To what, where:** ter counted long er

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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 (Injun en), 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:pg2306:36:20
# text = "De Injun en de Chinee got ter be 'counted 'long er de merlatter.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Injun	Injun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	de	de	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Chinee	Chinee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	ter	ter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	compound	_	_
16	merlatter	merlatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | past | Injun en de Chinee |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **count** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | ter counted long er and de merlatter |  |  |  |  | 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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