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title: I'm dat hongry dat my stomach is gittin' ready to go in mo'nin." — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I'm dat hongry dat my stomach is gittin' ready to go in mo'nin." Who acts: I, stomach. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 20

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I'm dat hongry dat my stomach is gittin' ready to go in mo'nin."

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**Who acts:** I, stomach · **What happens:** be, go · **To what, where:** dat hongry dat, gittin, mo'nin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, stomach), 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:pg2306:62:20
# text = I'm dat hongry dat my stomach is gittin' ready to go in mo'nin."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	hongry	hongry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	gittin	gittin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	mo'nin	mo'nin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | I | dat hongry dat and gittin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | my stomach | gittin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | my stomach *not said here* |  |  | mo'nin |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in mo'nin=Location |

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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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