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title: Nigger dat knows he's gwineter git thumped kin sorter fix hisse'f, e… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Nigger dat knows he's gwineter git thumped kin sorter fix hisse'f, en I tuck'n fix up like de war wuz gwineter come right in at de front gate. Who acts: Nigger dat, dat, git, I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War, with its dependency tr
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 84

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Nigger dat knows he's gwineter git thumped kin sorter fix hisse'f, en I tuck'n fix up like de war wuz gwineter come right in at de front gate.

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**Who acts:** Nigger dat, dat, git, I, en · **What happens:** know, be, thump, fix, fix up, come · **To what, where:** kin sorter, hisse'f, en, de front gate · **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 (Nigger dat, dat, git, I), 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:pg2306:46:84
# text = Nigger dat knows he's gwineter git thumped kin sorter fix hisse'f, en I tuck'n fix up like de war wuz gwineter come right in at de front gate.
1	Nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	gwineter	gwinet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	ccomp	_	_
7	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	thumped	thump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	kin	kin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	hisse'f	hisse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	tuck'n	tuck'n	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
25	right	right	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	obl	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | Nigger dat |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | dat |  |  |  |  | gwinet *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **thump** | past | git | kin sorter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fix** | infinitive | git *not said here* | hisse'f |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hisse'f=Patient |
| 5 | **fix up** | infinitive | I | en *not said here* |  |  |  | like war wuz gwineter | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent en=Patient |
| 6 | **come** | present | en |  |  | de front gate |  | right *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at gate=Location |

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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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