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title: So I des sorter riz up an' retch fer my ole muskit, and den I crope… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: So I des sorter riz up an' retch fer my ole muskit, and den I crope out er de back do', an' w'atter you reckin I seed?" Who acts: I, sorter riz, you. 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 eve
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 20

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So I des sorter riz up an' retch fer my ole muskit, and den I crope out er de back do', an' w'atter you reckin I seed?"

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**Who acts:** I, sorter riz, you · **What happens:** crope out, ',, reckin, seed · **To what, where:** er, w'atter

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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, sorter riz, you), 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:pg2306:58:20
# text = So I des sorter riz up an' retch fer my ole muskit, and den I crope out er de back do', an' w'atter you reckin I seed?"
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	des	des	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	det	_	_
4	sorter	sorter	X	FW	_	5	compound	_	_
5	riz	riz	PROPN	FW	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
9	retch	retch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	muskit	muskit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	crope	crope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	flat:foreign	_	_
22	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	',	',	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
27	w'atter	w'atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	reckin	reckin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crope out** | present | I | er |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **',** | present · do-support | des sorter riz | a w'atter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reckin** | present | you | a w'atter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **seed** |  | I |  |  |  |  |  | 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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