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title: Wid one bar'l stave I kin fa'rly lif' de vail er ignunce." — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Wid one bar'l stave I kin fa'rly lif' de vail er ignunce." 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 every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. As to Education, sentence 15

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Wid one bar'l stave I kin fa'rly lif' de vail er ignunce."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** kin, vail · **To what, where:** one bar'l stave, er ignunce

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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:pg2306:63:15
# text = Wid one bar'l stave I kin fa'rly lif' de vail er ignunce."
1	Wid	Wid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	bar'l	bar'l	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	stave	stave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	kin	kin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	fa'rly	fa'rly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	lif	lif	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	conj	_	_
11	vail	vail	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	ignunce	ignunce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kin** | present | I | one bar'l stave |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **vail** | infinitive | I *not said here* | er ignunce |  |  |  |  | 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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