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title: I year talk er niggers dat's got money in de bank, but I lay hit ain… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I year talk er niggers dat's got money in de bank, but I lay hit ain't none er you fellers. Who acts: I, dat, ai, none. 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 8

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I year talk er niggers dat's got money in de bank, but I lay hit ain't none er you fellers.

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**Who acts:** I, dat, ai, none · **What happens:** talk, get, hit, not er · **To what, where:** er niggers, money, de bank, I, you

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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, dat, ai, none), 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:pg2306:50:8
# text = I year talk er niggers dat's got money in de bank, but I lay hit ain't none er you fellers.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	niggers	nigger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	dat	dat	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
18	ai	ai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	21	nsubj	_	_
21	er	er	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	fellers	feller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | present | I | er niggers |  |  | year |  | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent nigger=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | present · passive | dat | money |  | de bank |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hit** | present · passive | ai | I |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **not** **er** | infinitive | none | you |  |  |  |  | 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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