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title: I gotter muskit out dar w'at's used ter persidin' 'roun' whar dey's… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I gotter muskit out dar w'at's used ter persidin' 'roun' whar dey's a cripple nigger. Who acts: I, roun whar dey. 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 20

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I gotter muskit out dar w'at's used ter persidin' 'roun' whar dey's a cripple nigger.

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**Who acts:** I, roun whar dey · **What happens:** gotter out, use, be · **To what, where:** muskit, cripple nigger

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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, roun whar dey), 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:pg2306:50:20
# text = I gotter muskit out dar w'at's used ter persidin' 'roun' whar dey's a cripple nigger.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gotter	gotter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	muskit	muskit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	dar	dar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
9	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	persidin	persidin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	whar	whar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	cripple	cripple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gotter out** | present | I | muskit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | roun whar dey | a cripple nigger |  |  |  |  | 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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