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title: Gimme th'ee er fo' drams endurin' er de day, an' I'm mighty nigh ez… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Gimme th'ee er fo' drams endurin' er de day, an' I'm mighty nigh ez good a tempunce man ez de next un. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, sentence 22

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Gimme th'ee er fo' drams endurin' er de day, an' I'm mighty nigh ez good a tempunce man ez de next un.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer. 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:pg2306:64:22
# text = Gimme th'ee er fo' drams endurin' er de day, an' I'm mighty nigh ez good a tempunce man ez de next un.
1	Gimme	Gimme	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	th'ee	th'ee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	drams	dram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	compound	_	_
7	endurin	endurin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	er	er	X	FW	_	11	compound	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	flat:foreign	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
18	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	ez	ez	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	tempunce	tempunce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
24	ez	ez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	conj	_	_
25	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	flat:foreign	_	_
26	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	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 |  |  |  |  | mighty *property* | 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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