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title: I kin take a bar'l stave an' fling mo' sense inter a nigger in one m… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I kin take a bar'l stave an' fling mo' sense inter a nigger in one minnit dan all de schoolhouses betwixt dis en de State er Midgigin. Who acts: I. 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 ev
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. As to Education, sentence 13

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I kin take a bar'l stave an' fling mo' sense inter a nigger in one minnit dan all de schoolhouses betwixt dis en de State er Midgigin.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** take, stave · **To what, where:** bar'l, fling mo

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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 (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:pg2306:63:13
# text = I kin take a bar'l stave an' fling mo' sense inter a nigger in one minnit dan all de schoolhouses betwixt dis en de State er Midgigin.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	kin	kin	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bar'l	bar'l	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	stave	stave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
9	fling	fling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
12	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	inter	inter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	minnit	minnit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	dan	dan	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	dep	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
21	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	schoolhouses	schoolhouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
23	betwixt	betwixt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
27	State	State	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
28	er	er	INTJ	UH	_	29	discourse	_	_
29	Midgigin	Midgigin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** |  | I | a bar'l |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar'l=Theme |
| 2 | **stave** | infinitive | I *not said here* | a fling mo and sense inter |  |  |  |  | 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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