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title: I done had lots er trubble wid dem chickens, an' w'en I years wun un… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I done had lots er trubble wid dem chickens, an' w'en I years wun un um squall my ve'y shoes comes ontied. Who acts: I, trubble, w'en. 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 19

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I done had lots er trubble wid dem chickens, an' w'en I years wun un um squall my ve'y shoes comes ontied.

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**Who acts:** I, trubble, w'en · **What happens:** do, have, chicken, wun, squall, come · **To what, where:** lots, un um, ve'y shoes, wid dem chickens

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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 (I, trubble, w'en), 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:pg2306:58:19
# text = I done had lots er trubble wid dem chickens, an' w'en I years wun un um squall my ve'y shoes comes ontied.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	done	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
4	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
6	trubble	trubble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wun	wun	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	squall	squall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	ve'y	ve'y	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
24	ontied	ontied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | I *not said here* | lots |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient |
| 3 | **chicken** |  | trubble |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wun** | present | I | un um |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **squall** *speech: other* | infinitive | I *not said here* | my ve'y shoes |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Topic |
| 6 | **come** | present | a w'en | wid dem chickens *not said here* |  |  |  | ontied *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chicken=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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