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title: "Hit's a natal fack, boss, I declar' ter grashus ef 'tain't. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Hit's a natal fack, boss, I declar' ter grashus ef 'tain't. Who acts: Hit, gentleman. 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 17

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"Hit's a natal fack, boss, I declar' ter grashus ef 'tain't.

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**Who acts:** Hit, gentleman · **What happens:** be, declar · **To what, where:** natal fack

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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 (Hit, gentleman), 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:pg2306:56:17
# text = "Hit's a natal fack, boss, I declar' ter grashus ef 'tain't.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hit	Hit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	natal	natal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fack	fack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	declar	declar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
13	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	grashus	grashus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	tai	tai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | Hit | a natal fack and boss and declar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **declar** *in a quote* |  | a gentleman *= gentleman* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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