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title: An' de nigger w'at k'n trapes 'round wid pies and not git in no alle… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: An' de nigger w'at k'n trapes 'round wid pies and not git in no alley-way an' sample um, den I'm bleedzd ter say dat nigger out- niggers me an' my fambly. Who acts: de nigger w'at. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. a Confession, with its dependency tr
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. a Confession, sentence 13

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An' de nigger w'at k'n trapes 'round wid pies and not git in no alley-way an' sample um, den I'm bleedzd ter say dat nigger out- niggers me an' my fambly.

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**Who acts:** de nigger w'at · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** niggers

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. a Confession. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (de nigger w'at), 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:pg2306:51:13
# text = An' de nigger w'at k'n trapes 'round wid pies and not git in no alley-way an' sample um, den I'm bleedzd ter say dat nigger out- niggers me an' my fambly.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
3	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
6	k'n	k'n	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	trapes	trape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	'	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	round	round	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	pies	pie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
17	alley	alley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
22	sample	sample	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	bleedzd	bleedzd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	out	out	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	_
35	niggers	nigger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
36	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	_
39	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod	_	_
40	fambly	fambly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a de nigger w'at round wid pies and git in no alley way  a sample um and den k'n trapes |  |  | niggers  my |  | say *property* | 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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