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title: I santered roun' 'bout er half nour, an den I begin fer ter feel sor… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I santered roun' 'bout er half nour, an den I begin fer ter feel sorter squeemish--sorter like I done bin an, swoller'd 'bout fo' poun's off'n de ruff een' uv er scantlin'. Who acts: I, fer ter, sorter squeemish. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. the
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. the Florida Watermelon, sentence 15

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I santered roun' 'bout er half nour, an den I begin fer ter feel sorter squeemish--sorter like I done bin an, swoller'd 'bout fo' poun's off'n de ruff een' uv er scantlin'.

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**Who acts:** I, fer ter, sorter squeemish · **What happens:** santer, begin, feel, done, bin · **To what, where:** roun bout, den, bout

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. the Florida Watermelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fer ter, sorter squeemish), 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:pg2306:61:15
# text = I santered roun' 'bout er half nour, an den I begin fer ter feel sorter squeemish--sorter like I done bin an, swoller'd 'bout fo' poun's off'n de ruff een' uv er scantlin'.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	santered	santer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	er	er	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
8	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	9	det:predet	_	_
9	nour	nour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	begin	begin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
18	sorter	sorter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	squeemish	squeemish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	done	done	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
25	bin	bin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	swoller	swoller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
32	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	36	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
34	poun	poun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	off'n	off'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
37	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	ruff	ruff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	een	een	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	_
41	uv	ultra-violet	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
42	er	er	X	FW	_	43	compound	_	_
43	scantlin	scantlin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **santer** | past | I | roun bout |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | present | I | a den |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** | present | fer ter |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **done** | present | sorter squeemish and sorter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bin** | infinitive | sorter squeemish and sorter *not said here* | a bout |  |  |  | for poun off'n and de ruff een | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bout=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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