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title: You ain't seed no nigger hump hisse'f like dat nigger. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: You ain't seed no nigger hump hisse'f like dat nigger. Who acts: 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 27

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You ain't seed no nigger hump hisse'f like dat nigger.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** not be · **To what, where:** seed

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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 (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:pg2306:58:27
# text = You ain't seed no nigger hump hisse'f like dat nigger.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
6	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	hisse'f	hisse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | You | seed |  |  |  |  | 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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