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title: I des natchully hankered an' got hongry atter water, an ev'y time I… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I des natchully hankered an' got hongry atter water, an ev'y time I sing out fer water I got b'ilin' hot sassafac tea. Who acts: I, b'ilin. 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 claus
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 23

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I des natchully hankered an' got hongry atter water, an ev'y time I sing out fer water I got b'ilin' hot sassafac tea.

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**Who acts:** I, b'ilin · **What happens:** hanker, get, sing out, tea · **To what, where:** an, hongry atter water, fer water

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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, b'ilin), 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:pg2306:56:23
# text = I des natchully hankered an' got hongry atter water, an ev'y time I sing out fer water I got b'ilin' hot sassafac tea.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	des	des	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	nsubj	_	_
3	natchully	natchully	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	hankered	hanker	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	hongry	hongry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	atter	att	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	ev'y	ev'y	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	b'ilin	b'ilin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	sassafac	sassafac	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hanker** | past | I | an |  |  |  | natchully *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | past |  | hongry atter water and a ev'y time |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sing out** *speech: express* | present | I | fer water |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | past | I | fer water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus |
| 5 | **tea** |  | b'ilin |  |  |  |  |  | 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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