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title: Hit's done got so it's agin de law fer ter bus' loose an' kill a nig… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hit's done got so it's agin de law fer ter bus' loose an' kill a nigger, ain't it, boss?" Who acts: Hit, w'at. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. As a Murderer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 10

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Hit's done got so it's agin de law fer ter bus' loose an' kill a nigger, ain't it, boss?"

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**Who acts:** Hit, w'at · **What happens:** do, get, be, lose, kill · **To what, where:** Hit, agin, nigger

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. As a Murderer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hit, w'at), 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:pg2306:58:10
# text = Hit's done got so it's agin de law fer ter bus' loose an' kill a nigger, ain't it, boss?"
1	Hit	Hit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	agin	agin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat:foreign	_	_
10	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	loose	lose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle |  | Hit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | past | Hit |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | present | w'at | agin and ter bus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lose** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **kill** | infinitive |  | a nigger and ai  w'at and boss |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nigger=Theme |

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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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