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title: "I'm gittin' sorter ole, Brer Rastus, an' it seem like de dus' sorte… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "I'm gittin' sorter ole, Brer Rastus, an' it seem like de dus' sorter shet out de pannyrammer. Who acts: wunner, it. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 22

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"I'm gittin' sorter ole, Brer Rastus, an' it seem like de dus' sorter shet out de pannyrammer.

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**Who acts:** wunner, it · **What happens:** be, seem · **To what, where:** gittin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wunner, it), 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:pg2306:48:22
# text = "I'm gittin' sorter ole, Brer Rastus, an' it seem like de dus' sorter shet out de pannyrammer.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	gittin	gittin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	ole	ole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	Rastus	Rastus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	compound	_	_
18	dus	dus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
20	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	shet	shet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	de	de	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	pannyrammer	pannyrammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | wunner | gittin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **seem** *in a quote* | present | it |  |  |  |  | like de dus | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=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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