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title: I gin a man a fi'-dollar bill 'fo' I lef' Jonesboro, an' he sed dat… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I gin a man a fi'-dollar bill 'fo' I lef' Jonesboro, an' he sed dat settled it." Who acts: I, fi, man, dat. 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 23

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I gin a man a fi'-dollar bill 'fo' I lef' Jonesboro, an' he sed dat settled it."

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**Who acts:** I, fi, man, dat · **What happens:** gin, bill, s, settle · **To what, where:** man, Jonesboro, fi

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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 (I, fi, man, dat), 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:pg2306:57:23
# text = I gin a man a fi'-dollar bill 'fo' I lef' Jonesboro, an' he sed dat settled it."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gin	gin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fi	fi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	15	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lef	lef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Jonesboro	Jonesboro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sed	s	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gin** | present | I | a man |  |  |  | for lef | tree rules |
| 2 | **bill** |  | a fi |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **s** | past | man | Jonesboro *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **settle** | past | dat | fi |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=Location |

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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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