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title: Fuddermo', my lim's got ter akin, mo' speshully w'en I year Brer Sim… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Fuddermo', my lim's got ter akin, mo' speshully w'en I year Brer Sim an' Brer Dick a snortin' and a skufflin' under de benches like ez dey wuz sorter makin' der way ter my pew. Who acts: lim. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Exp
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 23

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Fuddermo', my lim's got ter akin, mo' speshully w'en I year Brer Sim an' Brer Dick a snortin' and a skufflin' under de benches like ez dey wuz sorter makin' der way ter my pew.

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**Who acts:** lim · **What happens:** get, w'en · **To what, where:** ter akin, mo

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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 (lim), 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:pg2306:48:23
# text = Fuddermo', my lim's got ter akin, mo' speshully w'en I year Brer Sim an' Brer Dick a snortin' and a skufflin' under de benches like ez dey wuz sorter makin' der way ter my pew.
1	Fuddermo	Fuddermo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	',	',	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	lim	lim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	ter	ter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	akin	akin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
12	speshully	speshully	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	w'en	w'en	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	Sim	Sim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
20	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Dick	Dick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	snortin	snortin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	skufflin	skufflin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
29	under	under	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	benches	bench	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
32	like	like	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
33	ez	ez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
34	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	makin	makin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
39	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	amod	_	_
40	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:unmarked	_	_
41	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	pew	pew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present · passive | Fuddermo's lim | ter akin |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer akin=Stimulus |
| 2 | **w'en** | participle · passive |  | mo |  |  | year | speshully *property* | 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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