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title: Better git up, nigger, en give yo'se'f a shakin'-- (Hi O, Miss Sindy… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Better git up, nigger, en give yo'se'f a shakin'-- (Hi O, Miss Sindy Ann!) Who acts: Better git. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 10

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Better git up, nigger, en give yo'se'f a shakin'-- (Hi O, Miss Sindy Ann!)

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**Who acts:** Better git · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** en, yo'se'f

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Better git), 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:pg2306:41:10
# text = Better git up, nigger, en give yo'se'f a shakin'-- (Hi O, Miss Sindy Ann!)
1	Better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	yo'se'f	yo'se'f	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shakin	shakin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Hi	hi	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
16	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Sindy	Sindy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	Ann	Ann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | Better git and nigger | en | yo'se'f |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent yo'se'f=Recipient shakin=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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