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title: Bekaze ef dey er foun' a stray nigger layin' 'roun' loose, wid 'is b… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Bekaze ef dey er foun' a stray nigger layin' 'roun' loose, wid 'is bref gone, den I wanter go home an' git my brekfus' an' put on some clean cloze, an' 'liver myse'f up ter wunner deze yer jestesses er de peace, an git a fa'r trial." Who acts: Bekaze ef dey, I, den wanter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 7

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Bekaze ef dey er foun' a stray nigger layin' 'roun' loose, wid 'is bref gone, den I wanter go home an' git my brekfus' an' put on some clean cloze, an' 'liver myse'f up ter wunner deze yer jestesses er de peace, an git a fa'r trial."

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**Who acts:** Bekaze ef dey, I, den wanter · **What happens:** be, wanter, go, put · **To what, where:** git, clean cloze

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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 (Bekaze ef dey, I, den wanter), 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:pg2306:58:7
# text = Bekaze ef dey er foun' a stray nigger layin' 'roun' loose, wid 'is bref gone, den I wanter go home an' git my brekfus' an' put on some clean cloze, an' 'liver myse'f up ter wunner deze yer jestesses er de peace, an git a fa'r trial."
1	Bekaze	Bekaze	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
4	er	er	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	foun	foun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	stray	stray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	layin	layin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	bref	bref	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	wanter	wanter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	parataxis	_	_
27	home	home	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
30	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	brekfus	brekfus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
36	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	40	det	_	_
39	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	cloze	cloze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	_
44	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	liver	liver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	_
46	myse'f	myse'f	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	45	appos	_	_
47	up	up	ADP	RP	_	45	compound	_	_
48	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	wunner	wunner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	deze	deze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
51	yer	y	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	52	amod	_	_
52	jestesses	jestess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	conj	_	_
53	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	55	advmod	_	_
54	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
57	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	fa'r	fa'r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	_
61	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Bekaze ef dey |  |  |  |  | bref, gone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wanter** |  | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | den wanter | a git |  |  |  | home *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location git=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | participle |  |  |  | some clean cloze |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cloze=Destination |

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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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