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title: I seed you a-stannin' over agin de cornder yander, an' ef dat nigger… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I seed you a-stannin' over agin de cornder yander, an' ef dat nigger'd a draw'd his monty kyards on me, I wuz a gwineter holler fer you. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 42

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I seed you a-stannin' over agin de cornder yander, an' ef dat nigger'd a draw'd his monty kyards on me, I wuz a gwineter holler fer you.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** seed, wuz · **To what, where:** holler fer

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. in the Role of a Tartar. 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:pg2306:55:42
# text = I seed you a-stannin' over agin de cornder yander, an' ef dat nigger'd a draw'd his monty kyards on me, I wuz a gwineter holler fer you.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	stannin	stannin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	agin	agin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	compound	_	_
11	cornder	cornder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	yander	yander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
16	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	draw	draw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	monty	monty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	kyards	kyard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seed** |  | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wuz** | present | I | a holler fer |  |  |  |  | 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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