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title: W'at a nigger gwineter larn outen books? — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: W'at a nigger gwineter larn outen books? Who acts: you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. As to Education, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. As to Education, sentence 12

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W'at a nigger gwineter larn outen books?

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** w'at, larn · **To what, where:** nigger gwineter, outen books

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. As to Education. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg2306:63:12
# text = W'at a nigger gwineter larn outen books?
1	W'at	w'at	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	larn	larn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	outen	outen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **w'at** | imperative | you *not said here* | a nigger gwineter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **larn** | infinitive | you *not said here* | outen books |  |  |  |  | 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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