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title: Lemme git by, En see w'at she mean by de cut er dat eye! — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Lemme git by, En see w'at she mean by de cut er dat eye! Who acts: En, w'at, Lemme 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 101

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Lemme git by, En see w'at she mean by de cut er dat eye!

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**Who acts:** En, w'at, Lemme git · **What happens:** see, mean, cut · **To what, where:** Lemme git, eye · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (En, w'at, Lemme 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:pg2306:41:101
# text = Lemme git by, En see w'at she mean by de cut er dat eye!
1	Lemme	Lemme	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
7	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
14	dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | infinitive | En | Lemme git *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | infinitive | w'at |  |  |  |  | by de | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cut** | past | Lemme git | that eye |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset eye=Product |

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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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