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title: "Oh, I'm a waitin' on a culled gemmun fum Savannah--wunner deze yer… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Oh, I'm a waitin' on a culled gemmun fum Savannah--wunner deze yer high livers you bin tellin' 'bout." Who acts: Uncle Remus, waitin, wunner deze, yer high livers. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, with its depe
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 35

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"Oh, I'm a waitin' on a culled gemmun fum Savannah--wunner deze yer high livers you bin tellin' 'bout."

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**Who acts:** Uncle Remus, waitin, wunner deze, yer high livers · **What happens:** be, cull, fum, liver, bin · **To what, where:** waitin, Savannah, culled gemmun, tellin bout

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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 (Uncle Remus, waitin, wunner deze, yer high livers), 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:pg2306:49:35
# text = "Oh, I'm a waitin' on a culled gemmun fum Savannah--wunner deze yer high livers you bin tellin' 'bout."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	waitin	waitin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	culled	cull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	gemmun	gemmun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
13	fum	fum	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	Savannah	Savannah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	wunner	wunner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	deze	deze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	yer	y	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
19	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	livers	liver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
23	tellin	tellin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Uncle Remus *= remus* | a waitin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cull** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fum** *in a quote* | infinitive | a waitin | Savannah |  | a culled gemmun |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **liver** *in a quote* |  | wunner deze |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bin** *in a quote* | present | yer high livers | tellin bout |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bout=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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