--- title: Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-ten, Christ is de mo'ner's onliest… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-ten, Christ is de mo'ner's onliest fr'en'-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer; Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-lev'm, Christ 'll be at de do' w'en we all git ter Hev'm-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer. Who acts: Christ, I, de mo'ner, eighteen hunder. 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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 (Christ, I, de mo'ner, eighteen hunder), 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:pg2306:42:7 # text = Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-ten, Christ is de mo'ner's onliest fr'en'-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer; Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-lev'm, Christ 'll be at de do' w'en we all git ter 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 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Christ Christ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 15 compound _ _ 15 mo'ner mo'ner NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 onliest only ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 18 amod _ _ 18 fr'en fr'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ 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 27 obl _ _ 27 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl _ _ 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 65 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 lev lev NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 44 Christ Christ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 45 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 46 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 48 cop _ _ 47 at at ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 49 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 65 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 51 punct _ _ 51 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 nsubj _ _ 52 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 53 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 54 det _ _ 54 git git NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ _ 55 ter ter ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 Hev Hev PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 58 -- -- PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 59 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 64 det _ SpaceAfter=No 60 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 64 punct _ _ 61 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 64 nsubj _ _ 62 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 64 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 63 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 64 advmod _ _ 64 wanter wanter NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 obl _ _ 65 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 66 yer yer PRON PRP Person=2|PronType=Prs 65 obj _ _ 67 no no ADV RB _ 68 advmod _ _ 68 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 65 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Christ | | | | | 's de mo'ner and onliest fr'en | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **wanter** | present · do-support | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **stay** | infinitive | de mo'ner and onliest fr'en *not said here* | yer | | | | long *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme yer=Location | | 4 | **is** | future | Christ | | | de | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **wanter** | present · do-support | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **stay** | present · do-support | Hit's eighteen hunder forty en lev and de | 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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/42/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/42/8/) - ↑ back to [1. a Plantation Chant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/42/)