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title: When we git dar, maybe well go on twel we gits ter Massasip." — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: When we git dar, maybe well go on twel we gits ter Massasip." Who acts: we. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. the Emigrants, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 12

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When we git dar, maybe well go on twel we gits ter Massasip."

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** go, git · **To what, where:** twel

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. the Emigrants. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg2306:57:12
# text = When we git dar, maybe well go on twel we gits ter Massasip."
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	gits	git	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Massasip	Massasip	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | maybe, well *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **git** |  | we |  |  | twel |  | ter Massasip | 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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