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title: Hit's des like I tell you: de nigger wern't sick a minnit. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hit's des like I tell you: de nigger wern't sick a minnit. Who acts: des. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, sentence 17

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Hit's des like I tell you: de nigger wern't sick a minnit.

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**Who acts:** des · **What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** de nigger wer, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (des), 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:pg2306:47:17
# text = Hit's des like I tell you: de nigger wern't sick a minnit.
1	Hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	wer	wer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	minnit	minnit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Hit's des like I | de nigger wer | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |

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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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