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title: W'en freedom come out de niggers sorter got dere humps up, an' dey s… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: W'en freedom come out de niggers sorter got dere humps up, an' dey staid dat way, twel bimeby dey begun fer ter git hongry, an' den dey begun fer ter drap inter line right smartually; an' now," continued the old man, emphatically, "dey er des ez palaverous ez dey wuz befo' de war. Who acts: W'en fre
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Race Improvement, sentence 13

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W'en freedom come out de niggers sorter got dere humps up, an' dey staid dat way, twel bimeby dey begun fer ter git hongry, an' den dey begun fer ter drap inter line right smartually; an' now," continued the old man, emphatically, "dey er des ez palaverous ez dey wuz befo' de war.

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**Who acts:** W'en freedom, sorter, dere, bimeby dey, begun fer ter, des · **What happens:** come out, get, hump up, begin, drap, continue · **To what, where:** niggers, fer ter git, inter line, old man, de war · **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 (W'en freedom, sorter, dere, bimeby dey), 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:pg2306:54:13
# text = W'en freedom come out de niggers sorter got dere humps up, an' dey staid dat way, twel bimeby dey begun fer ter git hongry, an' den dey begun fer ter drap inter line right smartually; an' now," continued the old man, emphatically, "dey er des ez palaverous ez dey wuz befo' de war.
1	W'en	W'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	niggers	nigger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	dere	dere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	humps	hump	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
15	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	staid	staid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
17	dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
23	begun	begin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
25	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	hongry	hongry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
31	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
33	begun	begin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
34	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	amod	_	_
35	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	drap	drap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
37	inter	inter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	right	right	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	smartually	smartually	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
42	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	_
44	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	47	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	44	punct	_	_
47	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	emphatically	emphatically	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
56	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	63	amod	_	_
57	des	des	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	63	nsubj	_	_
58	ez	ez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
59	palaverous	palaverous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
60	ez	ez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
61	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	compound	_	_
62	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	compound	_	_
63	befo	befo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	63	punct	_	_
65	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	66	compound	_	_
66	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | present | W'en freedom | de's niggers |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | past | sorter | de's niggers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hump up** | present | dere |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **begin** | participle | bimeby dey and a den dey *not said here* | fer ter git |  |  |  | hongry *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent git=Eventuality |
| 5 | **begin** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **drap** | present | begun fer ter | inter line |  |  |  | smartually *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **continue** *in a quote* | past |  | the old man |  |  | now | dey *obl*; emphatically *property* | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 8 | **befo** |  | des | de war |  |  |  |  | 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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