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title: Dis kinder ho'p me up, kaze I done seed Ole Miss look dat away once… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dis kinder ho'p me up, kaze I done seed Ole Miss look dat away once befo' w'en de overseer struck me in de face wid a w'ip. Who acts: I, kaze, de overseer. 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 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 95

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Dis kinder ho'p me up, kaze I done seed Ole Miss look dat away once befo' w'en de overseer struck me in de face wid a w'ip.

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**Who acts:** I, kaze, de overseer · **What happens:** do, look away, strike, wi · **To what, where:** seed, Dis kinder ho'p, me, w'ip, de face

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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 (I, kaze, de overseer), 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:pg2306:46:95
# text = Dis kinder ho'p me up, kaze I done seed Ole Miss look dat away once befo' w'en de overseer struck me in de face wid a w'ip.
1	Dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	kinder	kind	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	ho'p	ho'p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	done	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
12	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	dat	dat	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	advmod	_	_
17	befo	befo	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	compound	_	_
21	overseer	overseer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
27	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	w'ip	w'ip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | I | seed |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Eventuality |
| 2 | **look away** | present | kaze | Dis kinder ho'p |  |  |  | away, dat, once *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **strike** | past | de overseer | me |  |  |  | befo w'en | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Instrument |
| 4 | **wi** | past | de overseer *not said here* | a w'ip |  | de face |  |  | tree rules |

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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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