--- title: I ain't no spishus nigger myse'f, but I 'spizes fer ter year dogs a… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: I ain't no spishus nigger myse'f, but I 'spizes fer ter year dogs a howlin' an' squinch- owls havin' de agur out in de woods, an' w'en a bull goes a bellerin' by de house den my bones git col' an' my flesh commences fer ter creep; but w'en it comes ter deze yer sines in de a'r an' deze yer sperrits --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XIII. His Practical View of Things](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/) / 15 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 15 I ain't no spishus nigger myse'f, but I 'spizes fer ter year dogs a howlin' an' squinch- owls havin' de agur out in de woods, an' w'en a bull goes a bellerin' by de house den my bones git col' an' my flesh commences fer ter creep; but w'en it comes ter deze yer sines in de a'r an' deze yer sperrits in de woods, den I'm out--den I'm done. **Who acts:** I, havin agur, bones, flesh, fer ter, ter · **What happens:** agur out, go, col, commence, creep, w'en · **To what, where:** de woods, bellerin, ter deze, den This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. His Practical View of Things. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, havin agur, bones, flesh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:59:15 # text = I ain't no spishus nigger myse'f, but I 'spizes fer ter year dogs a howlin' an' squinch- owls havin' de agur out in de woods, an' w'en a bull goes a bellerin' by de house den my bones git col' an' my flesh commences fer ter creep; but w'en it comes ter deze yer sines in de a'r an' deze yer sperrits in de woods, den I'm out--den I'm done. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 ai be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 5 spishus spishus ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 nigger nigger NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 myse'f myse'f NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 11 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 spizes spiz NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 13 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 amod _ _ 14 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 howlin howlin NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 22 squinch squinch NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 compound _ _ 25 havin havin NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 25 conj _ _ 28 agur agur NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 29 out out ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 36 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 bellerin bellerin NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 43 by by ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 de de PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 45 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 47 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 nsubj _ _ 49 git git NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 col col NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ _ 52 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 56 punct _ _ 54 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 55 nmod:poss _ _ 55 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nsubj _ _ 56 commences commence VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 conj _ _ 57 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 58 amod _ _ 58 ter ter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 59 nsubj _ _ 59 creep creep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 56 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 60 ; ; PUNCT : _ 62 punct _ _ 61 but but CCONJ CC _ 62 cc _ _ 62 w'en w'en VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 63 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 64 nsubj _ _ 64 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 62 ccomp _ _ 65 ter ter X FW _ 66 compound _ _ 66 deze deze NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 obl _ _ 67 yer y ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 68 amod _ _ 68 sines sine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 66 conj _ _ 69 in in ADP IN _ 71 case _ _ 70 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 71 compound _ _ 71 a'r a'r NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 nmod _ _ 72 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 74 det _ SpaceAfter=No 73 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 74 punct _ _ 74 deze deze NOUN NN Number=Sing 71 appos _ _ 75 yer yer PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 76 nmod:poss _ _ 76 sperrits sperrit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 74 conj _ _ 77 in in ADP IN _ 79 case _ _ 78 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 79 compound _ _ 79 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 76 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 80 , , PUNCT , _ 81 punct _ _ 81 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 74 conj _ _ 82 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 84 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 83 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 84 cop _ _ 84 out out ADV RB _ 81 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 85 -- -- PUNCT , _ 86 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 86 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 74 conj _ _ 87 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 89 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 88 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 89 cop _ _ 89 done done ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 86 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 90 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **agur out** | | I | | | de woods | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | present | havin agur | a bellerin | | | | by de's house den and git col | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bellerin=Theme | | 3 | **col** | | my bones | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **commence** | present | my flesh | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **creep** | present | fer ter | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **w'en** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **come** | present | ter | ter deze and yer sines in de a'r | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **is** | present | I | den *not said here* | | | | out *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **is** | present | I | den *not said here* | | | | done *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/16/) - ↑ back to [XIII. 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