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title: I bin knowin' dat jug now gwine on sixty-fi' year, an' de jug w'at's… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I bin knowin' dat jug now gwine on sixty-fi' year, an' de jug w'at's more seetful dan dat jug ain't on de topside er de worrul. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 11

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I bin knowin' dat jug now gwine on sixty-fi' year, an' de jug w'at's more seetful dan dat jug ain't on de topside er de worrul.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** bin · **To what, where:** knowin dat jug

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg2306:60:11
# text = I bin knowin' dat jug now gwine on sixty-fi' year, an' de jug w'at's more seetful dan dat jug ain't on de topside er de worrul.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	knowin	knowin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	jug	jug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	fi	fi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
18	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	jug	jug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	conj	_	_
23	seetful	seetful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	dan	dan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
25	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	jug	jug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	compound	_	_
31	topside	topside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
32	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	appos	_	_
33	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	32	flat:foreign	_	_
34	worrul	worrul	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present | I | knowin dat jug |  |  | year | gwine *obl* | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent jug=Theme |

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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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