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title: I'm preparin' fer to shake worldliness. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I'm preparin' fer to shake worldliness. Who acts: I. 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 7

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I'm preparin' fer to shake worldliness.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be, shake · **To what, where:** worldliness

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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), 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:pg2306:62:7
# text = I'm preparin' fer to shake worldliness.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	preparin	preparin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	worldliness	worldliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | preparin *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shake** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | worldliness |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent worldliness=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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