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title: "I gin 'im dem," said Uncle Remus, pointing to Mrs. Huntingdon, "en… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "I gin 'im dem," said Uncle Remus, pointing to Mrs. Huntingdon, "en I gin 'im deze"--holding up his own brawny arms. " Who acts: Uncle Remus. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 136

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"I gin 'im dem," said Uncle Remus, pointing to Mrs. Huntingdon, "en I gin 'im deze"--holding up his own brawny arms. "

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**Who acts:** Uncle Remus · **What happens:** gin, say, point, hold up · **To what, where:** im dem, Mrs., im deze, own brawny arms · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle Remus), 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:pg2306:46:136
# text = "I gin 'im dem," said Uncle Remus, pointing to Mrs. Huntingdon, "en I gin 'im deze"--holding up his own brawny arms. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gin	gin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	im	im	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	Huntingdon	Huntingdon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	gin	gin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	im	im	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	deze	deze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
30	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	brawny	brawny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gin** *in a quote* | present | Uncle Remus *= remus* | im dem |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Uncle Remus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **point** | gerund | Uncle Remus *not said here* |  | Mrs. |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mrs.=Recipient |
| 4 | **gin** *in a quote* | present | Uncle Remus *= remus* | im deze |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hold up** | gerund | Uncle Remus *not said here* | en's own brawny arms |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot arm=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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