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title: I got mustard, en poke salid, en lam's quarter in dat baskit, en me… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I got mustard, en poke salid, en lam's quarter in dat baskit, en me en my ole 'oman gwineter sample it. Who acts: I, en me en, en. 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 18

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I got mustard, en poke salid, en lam's quarter in dat baskit, en me en my ole 'oman gwineter sample it.

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**Who acts:** I, en me en, en · **What happens:** get, oman, sample · **To what, where:** mustard

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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 (I, en me en, en), 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:pg2306:50:18
# text = I got mustard, en poke salid, en lam's quarter in dat baskit, en me en my ole 'oman gwineter sample it.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	mustard	mustard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	poke	poke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	salid	salid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	lam	lam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	baskit	baskit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	compound	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	ole	ole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	oman	oman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
24	gwineter	gwinet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	sample	sample	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | I | mustard and poke salid and ole oman and gwineter sample |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mustard=Stimulus |
| 2 | **oman** |  | en me en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sample** |  | 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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