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title: "I got strucken wid a sickness, an' she hit de ole nigger a joe- dar… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "I got strucken wid a sickness, an' she hit de ole nigger a joe- darter 'fo' she tu'n 'im loose." Who acts: gentleman, dat. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. a Case of Measles, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 12

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"I got strucken wid a sickness, an' she hit de ole nigger a joe- darter 'fo' she tu'n 'im loose."

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**Who acts:** gentleman, dat · **What happens:** get, hit · **To what, where:** strucken wid, ole nigger

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. a Case of Measles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman, dat), 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:pg2306:56:12
# text = "I got strucken wid a sickness, an' she hit de ole nigger a joe- darter 'fo' she tu'n 'im loose."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	strucken	strucken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sickness	sickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	joe	joe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	darter	darter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	24	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	compound	_	_
24	tu'n	tu'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	im	im	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	loose	loose	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | past | a gentleman *= gentleman* | strucken wid |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent wid=Beneficiary sickness=Theme |
| 2 | **hit** *in a quote* | past | dat | de's ole nigger |  |  |  | for she tu'n; loose *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent nigger=Patient darter=Result |

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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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