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title: De pig dat runs off wid de year er corn gits little mo' dan de cob. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De pig dat runs off wid de year er corn gits little mo' dan de cob. Who acts: De pig dat. 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 63

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De pig dat runs off wid de year er corn gits little mo' dan de cob.

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**Who acts:** De pig dat · **What happens:** run off · **To what, where:** er corn gits

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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 (De pig dat), 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:pg2306:38:63
# text = De pig dat runs off wid de year er corn gits little mo' dan de cob.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat:foreign	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
10	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	gits	git	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	dan	dan	X	FW	_	17	compound	_	_
16	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	cob	cob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run off** | present | De pig dat | er corn gits and little mo and dan de cob |  |  | year |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme git=Trajectory |

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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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