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title: "Nex' mornin' de meezles 'd done kivered me, an' den ef I didn't git… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Nex' mornin' de meezles 'd done kivered me, an' den ef I didn't git dosted by de ole 'oman I'm a Chinee. Who acts: meezles, Nex, 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 clau
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 21

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"Nex' mornin' de meezles 'd done kivered me, an' den ef I didn't git dosted by de ole 'oman I'm a Chinee.

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**Who acts:** meezles, Nex, gentleman · **What happens:** do, kiver, not git, dost, be · **To what, where:** Nex, gentleman, den ef, Chinee

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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 (meezles, Nex, 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:pg2306:56:21
# text = "Nex' mornin' de meezles 'd done kivered me, an' den ef I didn't git dosted by de ole 'oman I'm a Chinee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nex	Nex	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	mornin	mornin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
7	meezles	meezle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
10	kivered	kiver	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
15	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	git	git	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	dosted	dost	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	oman	oman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Chinee	Chinee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | past · perfect | meezles | Nex *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nex=Eventuality |
| 2 | **kiver** *in a quote* | past | Nex | a gentleman *= gentleman* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **git** *in a quote* | past · do-support | a gentleman *= gentleman* | a den ef *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **dost** *in a quote* | participle |  | a den ef *not said here* |  |  |  | by de ole oman | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a gentleman *= gentleman* | a Chinee |  |  |  |  | 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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