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title: Now that it's gittin' sorter airish in de mornin's, dey don't 'pear… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Now that it's gittin' sorter airish in de mornin's, dey don't 'pear like de same niggers. Who acts: outen. 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 57

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Now that it's gittin' sorter airish in de mornin's, dey don't 'pear like de same niggers.

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**Who acts:** outen · **What happens:** be, not ' · **To what, where:** sorter airish, de mornin, pear

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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 (outen), 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:pg2306:60:57
# text = Now that it's gittin' sorter airish in de mornin's, dey don't 'pear like de same niggers.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	gittin	gittin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	airish	airish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	ccomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	compound	_	_
11	mornin	mornin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	'	'	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	pear	pear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	niggers	nigger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | outen | gittin's sorter airish and dey |  | de mornin |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **'** | present · do-support |  | pear |  |  | now | like de same niggers | 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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