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title: You ain't had de kine w'at kotch me on de underjaw. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: You ain't had de kine w'at kotch me on de underjaw. Who acts: You, de kine w'at. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 21

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You ain't had de kine w'at kotch me on de underjaw.

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**Who acts:** You, de kine w'at · **What happens:** not have, de, kotch · **To what, where:** de kine w'at, me, de underjaw

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, de kine 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:pg2306:52:21
# text = You ain't had de kine w'at kotch me on de underjaw.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	de	de	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
6	kine	kine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	kotch	kotch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	underjaw	underjaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | present · passive | You | de kine w'at |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **de** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **kotch** | infinitive | de kine w'at *not said here* | me |  | de underjaw |  |  | 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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