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title: "Nuthin' 'tall, Mars John, 'ceppin deze yer sunshine niggers. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Nuthin' 'tall, Mars John, 'ceppin deze yer sunshine niggers. 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 clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 37

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"Nuthin' 'tall, Mars John, 'ceppin deze yer sunshine niggers.

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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: 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:pg2306:46:37
# text = "Nuthin' 'tall, Mars John, 'ceppin deze yer sunshine niggers.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nuthin	Nuthin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	ceppin	ceppin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	deze	deze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
13	yer	y	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
14	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	niggers	nigger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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