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title: Some new nigger mighter broke inter jail." — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Some new nigger mighter broke inter jail." Who acts: new nigger mighter. 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 49

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Some new nigger mighter broke inter jail."

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**Who acts:** new nigger mighter · **What happens:** break · **To what, where:** inter jail

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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 (new nigger mighter), 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:pg2306:60:49
# text = Some new nigger mighter broke inter jail."
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	mighter	mighter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	inter	int	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	jail	jail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | some new nigger mighter | inter jail |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jail=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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