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title: I wants money right now fer ter git a pint er meal." — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I wants money right now fer ter git a pint er meal." 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 6

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I wants money right now fer ter git a pint er meal."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** want · **To what, where:** money

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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:pg2306:64:6
# text = I wants money right now fer ter git a pint er meal."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	right	right	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
7	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	pint	pint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | I | money |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme git=Attribute |

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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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