--- title: Hit's done got so now dat w'en I gotter pone er bread, an' a rasher… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Hit's done got so now dat w'en I gotter pone er bread, an' a rasher er bacon, an' nuff grease fer ter make gravy, I ain't keerin' much w'edder fokes sees ghos'es er no." Who acts: Hit, I, er bread, much w'edder. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. Hi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/28/) [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/) / 28 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 28 Hit's done got so now dat w'en I gotter pone er bread, an' a rasher er bacon, an' nuff grease fer ter make gravy, I ain't keerin' much w'edder fokes sees ghos'es er no." **Who acts:** Hit, I, er bread, much w'edder, keerin · **What happens:** do, get, gotter, make, not be, foke · **To what, where:** Hit, pone, gravy, keerin, ghos'es 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 (Hit, I, er bread, much w'edder), 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:pg2306:59:28 # text = Hit's done got so now dat w'en I gotter pone er bread, an' a rasher er bacon, an' nuff grease fer ter make gravy, I ain't keerin' much w'edder fokes sees ghos'es er no." 1 Hit Hit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl _ _ 4 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 6 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ _ 7 dat dat ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 gotter gotter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 11 pone pone NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 er e ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 amod _ _ 13 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 rasher rasher NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 er er PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 bacon bacon NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 24 nuff nuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 grease grease NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 26 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 28 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 29 gravy gravy NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 ai be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 33 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 keerin keerin NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 36 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 w'edder w'edder NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 fokes foke VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 39 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 40 ghos'es ghos'e NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 41 er er ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 no. no. NOUN NN Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | participle | | Hit *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **get** | past | Hit | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **gotter** | present | I | pone | | | now | dat w'en | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | present | er bread and a rasher's bacon and a grease fer ter | gravy | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material gravy=Product | | 5 | **not** **is a** | present | I | keerin | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **foke** | present | much w'edder | keerin *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **see** | present | keerin | ghos'es | | | | | 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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/27/) - next →: [XIV. 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