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title: "Him po' country fer true," commented the Savannah negro; "he no lik… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Him po' country fer true," commented the Savannah negro; "he no like Sawanny. Who acts: Him po. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 25

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"Him po' country fer true," commented the Savannah negro; "he no like Sawanny.

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**Who acts:** Him po · **What happens:** comment · **To what, where:** Savannah negro

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Him po), 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:pg2306:49:25
# text = "Him po' country fer true," commented the Savannah negro; "he no like Sawanny.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Him	him	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	po	po	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
7	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	commented	comment	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Savannah	Savannah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	negro	negro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	no	no	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Sawanny	Sawanny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comment** *speech: other* | past | Him po and country | the Savannah negro |  |  |  | like Sawanny | 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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