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title: Hit's a mighty deaf nigger dat don't year de dinner-ho'n. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hit's a mighty deaf nigger dat don't year de dinner-ho'n. Who acts: Hit, mighty deaf nigger dat, year. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 60

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Hit's a mighty deaf nigger dat don't year de dinner-ho'n.

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**Who acts:** Hit, mighty deaf nigger dat, year · **What happens:** be, do, not ho'n · **To what, where:** mighty deaf nigger dat

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hit, mighty deaf nigger dat, year), 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:pg2306:38:60
# text = Hit's a mighty deaf nigger dat don't year de dinner-ho'n.
1	Hit	Hit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	deaf	deaf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	ho'n	ho'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Hit | a mighty deaf nigger dat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | a mighty deaf nigger dat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **ho'n** |  | year |  |  |  |  |  | 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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