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title: Hit's proned inter me fum de fus dat I got ter eat, en I knows dat I… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hit's proned inter me fum de fus dat I got ter eat, en I knows dat I got fer ter grub for w'at I gits. Who acts: me, de fus dat, ter, I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Turnip Salad As a Text, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Turnip Salad As a Text, sentence 16

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Hit's proned inter me fum de fus dat I got ter eat, en I knows dat I got fer ter grub for w'at I gits.

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**Who acts:** me, de fus dat, ter, I · **What happens:** prone, fum, get, eat, know · **To what, where:** proned inter, en, dat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Turnip Salad As a Text. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me, de fus dat, ter, 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:pg2306:50:16
# text = Hit's proned inter me fum de fus dat I got ter eat, en I knows dat I got fer ter grub for w'at I gits.
1	Hit	Hit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	proned	prone	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	inter	inter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fum	fum	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	compound	_	_
8	fus	fus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
12	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
18	dat	dat	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	obj	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
21	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
22	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	grub	grub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	conj	_	_
27	gits	git	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prone** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fum** | present | me | Hit's proned inter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | past | de fus dat |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **eat** | present | ter |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **know** | present | I | en |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **get** | past | I | dat |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent dat=Beneficiary grub=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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