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title: De nigger dat ain't hope up 'longer high feedin' ain't got no grip. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De nigger dat ain't hope up 'longer high feedin' ain't got no grip. Who acts: dat ai, high feedin. 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 29

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De nigger dat ain't hope up 'longer high feedin' ain't got no grip.

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**Who acts:** dat ai, high feedin · **What happens:** not hope up, not get · **To what, where:** grip · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (dat ai, high feedin), 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:pg2306:49:29
# text = De nigger dat ain't hope up 'longer high feedin' ain't got no grip.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	feedin	feedin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
13	ai	ai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	grip	grip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hope up** | present | dat ai |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **get** | past | high feedin | no grip |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grip=Stimulus |

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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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