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title: I done got so now dat I can't eat no chicken 'ceppin she's seasoned… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I done got so now dat I can't eat no chicken 'ceppin she's seasoned up wid calamus root.' Who acts: I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 34

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I done got so now dat I can't eat no chicken 'ceppin she's seasoned up wid calamus root.'

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** get, not eat, season up · **To what, where:** chicken ceppin, Rabbit

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg2306:4:34
# text = I done got so now dat I can't eat no chicken 'ceppin she's seasoned up wid calamus root.'
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	done	done	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
6	dat	dat	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
12	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	ceppin	ceppin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	seasoned	season	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	calamus	calamus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | I |  |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **eat** | can | I | no chicken ceppin |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceppin=Patient |
| 3 | **season up** | present · passive |  | Rabbit |  |  |  |  | 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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