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title: Put a spellin'-book in a nigger's han's, en right den en dar' you lo… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Put a spellin'-book in a nigger's han's, en right den en dar' you loozes a plow-hand. 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 23

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Put a spellin'-book in a nigger's han's, en right den en dar' you loozes a plow-hand.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** put, looz · **To what, where:** spellin book, han, plow hand

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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:pg2306:63:23
# text = Put a spellin'-book in a nigger's han's, en right den en dar' you loozes a plow-hand.
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	spellin	spellin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	loozes	looz	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	plow	plow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | a spellin book |  | a nigger's han and en and right en dar |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent book=Theme in han=Destination |
| 2 | **looz** | present | you | a plow hand |  |  |  |  | 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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