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title: "Dere's a kind er limberness 'bout niggers dese days dat's mighty cu… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Dere's a kind er limberness 'bout niggers dese days dat's mighty cu'us," remarked Uncle Remus yesterday, as he deposited a pitcher of fresh water upon the exchange table. " Who acts: Dere, Uncle, limberness. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Race 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Race Improvement, sentence 1

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"Dere's a kind er limberness 'bout niggers dese days dat's mighty cu'us," remarked Uncle Remus yesterday, as he deposited a pitcher of fresh water upon the exchange table. "

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**Who acts:** Dere, Uncle, limberness · **What happens:** be, remark, deposit · **To what, where:** kind er limberness, mighty cu'us, pitcher, exchange table · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Race Improvement. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dere, Uncle, limberness), 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:pg2306:54:1
# text = "Dere's a kind er limberness 'bout niggers dese days dat's mighty cu'us," remarked Uncle Remus yesterday, as he deposited a pitcher of fresh water upon the exchange table. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Dere	Dere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	limberness	limberness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	niggers	nigger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
11	dese	dese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	_
13	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cu'us	cu'us	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	deposited	deposit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Dere | a kind er limberness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle | Uncle | dat's mighty cu'us *not said here* |  |  | yesterday |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cu'us=Topic |
| 3 | **deposit** | past | limberness | a pitcher of fresh water |  | the exchange table |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pitcher=Theme upon table=Destination |

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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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