--- title: Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-six, Christ is got us a place done… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-six, Christ is got us a place done fix-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer; Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-sev'm Christ done sot a table in Hev'm An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer. Who acts: I, Christ, eighteen hunder, forty en sev. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Christ, eighteen hunder, forty en sev), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:42:3 # text = Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-six, Christ is got us a place done fix-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer; Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-sev'm Christ done sot a table in Hev'm An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer. 1 Hit Hit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 eighteen eighteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 hunder hunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 6 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 Christ Christ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 15 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ _ 19 fix fix NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 -- -- PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 25 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 wanter wanter NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 27 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 28 yer yer PRON PRP Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 no no ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 32 Hit Hit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 33 's 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 eighteen eighteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 hunder hunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 37 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 sev sev NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 42 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 Christ christ ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 41 acl:relcl _ _ 45 sot sot NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 48 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 Hev Hev PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 51 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 57 det _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 57 punct _ _ 53 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 54 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 55 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 57 advmod _ _ 56 wanter wanter NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ _ 57 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 conj _ _ 58 yer yer PRON PRP Person=2|PronType=Prs 57 obj _ _ 59 no no ADV RB _ 60 advmod _ _ 60 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 57 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 61 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present · passive | | Christ | us | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | participle | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **wanter** | present · do-support | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **stay** | infinitive | Christ *not said here* | yer | | | | long *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme yer=Location | | 5 | **sev** | would | Hit's eighteen hunder | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **do** | present · passive | forty en sev *not said here* | sot | | | | christ *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **stay** | present · do-support | I | yer | | | | long *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme yer=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/42/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/42/4/) - ↑ back to [1. a Plantation Chant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/42/)