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title: Much's I kin do ter keep de bref in my own body." — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Much's I kin do ter keep de bref in my own body." Who acts: Much. 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 9

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Much's I kin do ter keep de bref in my own body."

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**Who acts:** Much · **What happens:** kin, keep · **To what, where:** de bref, own body

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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 (Much), 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:pg2306:64:9
# text = Much's I kin do ter keep de bref in my own body."
1	Much	much	PRON	PRP	PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	kin	kin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	compound	_	_
9	bref	bref	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kin** | present | Much |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | present · do-support | Much *not said here* | de bref |  | my own body |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bref=Theme in body=Location |

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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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