--- title: Hit's bin sorter growin' on me, an' it come ter a head dis mawnin',… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Hit's bin sorter growin' on me, an' it come ter a head dis mawnin', 'less my name ain't Remus, an' dat's w'at dey bin er callin' me sence I wuz ole er 'nuff fer ter scratch myse'f wid my lef' han'." Who acts: growin, I, fer ter scratch myse'f, my. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Saying --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/58/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XII. As a Murderer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/58/) / 15 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 15 Hit's bin sorter growin' on me, an' it come ter a head dis mawnin', 'less my name ain't Remus, an' dat's w'at dey bin er callin' me sence I wuz ole er 'nuff fer ter scratch myse'f wid my lef' han'." **Who acts:** growin, I, fer ter scratch myse'f, my · **What happens:** come, wuz, wi, name · **To what, where:** ole er, lef 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 (growin, I, fer ter scratch myse'f, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:58:15 # text = Hit's bin sorter growin' on me, an' it come ter a head dis mawnin', 'less my name ain't Remus, an' dat's w'at dey bin er callin' me sence I wuz ole er 'nuff fer ter scratch myse'f wid my lef' han'." 1 Hit Hit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 sorter sorter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 growin growin NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 come come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 ter ter ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 dis dis NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 mawnin mawnin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ', ', PART POS _ 18 dep _ _ 20 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ _ 22 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 ai be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 25 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 Remus Remus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 30 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 35 er er PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 36 callin callin NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 iobj _ _ 39 sence sence NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 wuz wuz VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 42 ole ole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 er er NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 44 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 nuff nuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 appos _ _ 46 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 49 amod _ _ 47 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 48 scratch scratch NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 49 myse'f myse'f NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 50 wid wi VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 acl:relcl _ _ 51 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 nmod:poss _ _ 52 lef lef NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 54 punct _ _ 54 han han NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 54 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 57 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | growin | | | | | ter a dis mawnin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **wuz** | present | I | ole er | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **wi** | past | fer ter scratch myse'f | my lef | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **name** | | my | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/58/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/58/16/) - ↑ back to [XII. As a Murderer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/58/)