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title: "Dat's w'at's I'm a 'quirin' inter now, but I wouldn't be sustonishe… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Dat's w'at's I'm a 'quirin' inter now, but I wouldn't be sustonished ef I ain't laid a nigger out some'rs on de subbubs. Who acts: w'at, 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 ever
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 9

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"Dat's w'at's I'm a 'quirin' inter now, but I wouldn't be sustonished ef I ain't laid a nigger out some'rs on de subbubs.

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**Who acts:** w'at, policeman · **What happens:** be, not be, not lay out · **To what, where:** quirin inter, sustonished ef, nigger

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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 (w'at, 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:pg2306:58:9
# text = "Dat's w'at's I'm a 'quirin' inter now, but I wouldn't be sustonished ef I ain't laid a nigger out some'rs on de subbubs.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Dat	Dat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	quirin	quirin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	inter	inter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
20	sustonished	sustonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
29	some'rs	some'r	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	32	compound	_	_
32	subbubs	subbub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Dat's w'at | a quirin inter but sustonished ef |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | would | the policeman *= policeman* | sustonished ef |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **lay out** *in a quote* | present · passive | the policeman *= policeman* | a nigger |  |  |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent nigger=Theme some'r=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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