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title: "I seed de biggest, blackest nigger dat you ever laid eyes on. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "I seed de biggest, blackest nigger dat you ever laid eyes on. Who acts: policeman, 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 every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 22

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"I seed de biggest, blackest nigger dat you ever laid eyes on.

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**Who acts:** policeman, you · **What happens:** seed, lay · **To what, where:** eyes

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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 (policeman, 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:pg2306:58:22
# text = "I seed de biggest, blackest nigger dat you ever laid eyes on.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	flat:foreign	_	_
5	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	blackest	black	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	dat	dat	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	_
12	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seed** *in a quote* |  | the policeman *= policeman* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lay** *in a quote* | past | you | eyes |  |  | ever |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Result |

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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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