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title: I sot dar mighty ca'm, but I 'spected dat sump'n' wuz gwine ter happ… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I sot dar mighty ca'm, but I 'spected dat sump'n' wuz gwine ter happ'n." Who acts: I. 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 31

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I sot dar mighty ca'm, but I 'spected dat sump'n' wuz gwine ter happ'n."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** spect · **To what, where:** dat sump'n

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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 (I), 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:pg2306:52:31
# text = I sot dar mighty ca'm, but I 'spected dat sump'n' wuz gwine ter happ'n."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sot	sot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	dar	dar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
5	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	spected	spect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	sump'n	sump'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
15	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	happ'n	happ'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spect** | past | I | dat sump'n and ter happ'n |  |  |  |  | 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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