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title: One hoe- cake an' a rasher er middlin' meat las's me fum Sunday ter… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: One hoe- cake an' a rasher er middlin' meat las's me fum Sunday ter Sunday, an' I'm in a mighty big streak er luck w'en I gits dat." Who acts: rasher, I. 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
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 31

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One hoe- cake an' a rasher er middlin' meat las's me fum Sunday ter Sunday, an' I'm in a mighty big streak er luck w'en I gits dat."

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**Who acts:** rasher, I · **What happens:** middlin, be · **To what, where:** mighty big luck w'en

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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 (rasher, I), 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:pg2306:49:31
# text = One hoe- cake an' a rasher er middlin' meat las's me fum Sunday ter Sunday, an' I'm in a mighty big streak er luck w'en I gits dat."
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	hoe	hoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rasher	rasher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	er	er	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	middlin	middlin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	las	las	PROPN	NNP	Number=Plur	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	conj	_	_
16	fum	fum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:desc	_	_
19	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
27	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
28	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
29	streak	streak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	gits	git	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	compound	_	_
35	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **middlin** |  | a rasher |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  | a mighty big luck w'en |  |  | 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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