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title: I sed dat jug wuz seetful, an' I sticks to it. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I sed dat jug wuz seetful, an' I sticks to it. 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 clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 29

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I sed dat jug wuz seetful, an' I sticks to it.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** s, stick · **To what, where:** jug wuz, wuz

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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:pg2306:60:29
# text = I sed dat jug wuz seetful, an' I sticks to it.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sed	s	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	jug	jug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	seetful	seetful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sticks	stick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **s** | past | I | that jug wuz |  |  |  | seetful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stick** | present | I |  | wuz |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Patient |

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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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