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title: "Now you er gittin' on ma'shy groun'," replied Uncle Remus. " — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Now you er gittin' on ma'shy groun'," replied Uncle Remus. " Who acts: you, Uncle Remus. 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 8

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"Now you er gittin' on ma'shy groun'," replied Uncle Remus. "

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**Who acts:** you, Uncle Remus · **What happens:** er, reply · **To what, where:** gittin, ma'shy groun · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, Uncle Remus), 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:pg2306:60:8
# text = "Now you er gittin' on ma'shy groun'," replied Uncle Remus. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	er	er	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
5	gittin	gittin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	ma'shy	ma'shy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **er** *in a quote* | present | you | gittin |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Uncle Remus |  |  | ma'shy groun |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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