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title: So I kinder hump myse'f an' scramble out, and de fus man w'at I seed… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: So I kinder hump myse'f an' scramble out, and de fus man w'at I seed was a pleeceman, an' he had a nigger 'rested, an' de fergiven name er dat nigger wuz Remus." Who acts: I, pleeceman. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experienc
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 24

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So I kinder hump myse'f an' scramble out, and de fus man w'at I seed was a pleeceman, an' he had a nigger 'rested, an' de fergiven name er dat nigger wuz Remus."

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**Who acts:** I, pleeceman · **What happens:** scramble out, be, rest · **To what, where:** de fus man w'at, pleeceman, an

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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 (I, pleeceman), 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:pg2306:48:24
# text = So I kinder hump myse'f an' scramble out, and de fus man w'at I seed was a pleeceman, an' he had a nigger 'rested, an' de fergiven name er dat nigger wuz Remus."
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kinder	kind	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	myse'f	myse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	scramble	scramble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	compound	_	_
13	fus	fus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	pleeceman	pleeceman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	rested	rest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
33	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	fergiven	fergiven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
36	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	37	advmod	_	_
37	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod:desc	_	_
40	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scramble out** | infinitive |  | de fus man w'at |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | I | a pleeceman and a fergiven name  Remus  dat nigger wuz |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rest** | past · perfect · passive | a pleeceman and a fergiven name  Remus  dat nigger wuz *not said here* | an |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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