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title: I slipt inter bed one Chuseday night, an' I never slip out no mo' fe… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I slipt inter bed one Chuseday night, an' I never slip out no mo' fer mighty nigh er mont'. Who acts: I. 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 20

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I slipt inter bed one Chuseday night, an' I never slip out no mo' fer mighty nigh er mont'.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** slipt, not slip out · **To what, where:** inter bed, mo

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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 (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:pg2306:56:20
# text = I slipt inter bed one Chuseday night, an' I never slip out no mo' fer mighty nigh er mont'.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	slipt	slipt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	inter	int	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	Chuseday	Chuseday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	slip	slip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
18	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	appos	_	_
20	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	mont	mont	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slipt** | past | I | inter bed |  |  | night |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **slip out** | present | I | no mo |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent mo=Patient |

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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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