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title: I ain't soshatin' wid dem w'at lays down on de groun' en plays dead… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I ain't soshatin' wid dem w'at lays down on de groun' en plays dead w'en dar's a free fight gwine on,' sezee. Who acts: I, wid dem w'at, dead w'en dar. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 29

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I ain't soshatin' wid dem w'at lays down on de groun' en plays dead w'en dar's a free fight gwine on,' sezee.

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**Who acts:** I, wid dem w'at, dead w'en dar · **What happens:** not be, lay down, be · **To what, where:** soshatin, de groun, free fight gwine

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wid dem w'at, dead w'en dar), 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:pg2306:6:29
# text = I ain't soshatin' wid dem w'at lays down on de groun' en plays dead w'en dar's a free fight gwine on,' sezee.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	soshatin	soshatin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lays	lay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	down	down	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	compound	_	_
13	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	plays	play	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod:poss	_	_
17	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	w'en	w'en	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	acl:relcl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
28	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | I | soshatin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lay down** | present | wid dem w'at |  |  | de groun  en plays's sezee |  | down *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on groun=Destination |
| 3 | **is a** | present | dead w'en dar | a free fight gwine |  |  |  |  | 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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