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title: "'Pears unter me dat I come mighty nigh gittin' some news bout dat s… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Pears unter me dat I come mighty nigh gittin' some news bout dat size, an' dat's w'at I'm a huntin' fer. Who acts: policeman. 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 6

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"'Pears unter me dat I come mighty nigh gittin' some news bout dat size, an' dat's w'at I'm a huntin' fer.

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**Who acts:** policeman · **What happens:** come, be · **To what, where:** mighty gittin, fer

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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), 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:pg2306:58:6
# text = "'Pears unter me dat I come mighty nigh gittin' some news bout dat size, an' dat's w'at I'm a huntin' fer.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Pears	pear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	unter	unt	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
6	dat	dat	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	gittin	gittin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
14	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
21	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	huntin	huntin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present | the policeman *= policeman* | mighty gittin |  |  |  | some bout dat size *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gittin=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the policeman *= policeman* | a huntin's fer |  |  |  |  | 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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