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title: Den up I gits an' piles 'em on agin, an' w'en I gits in bed my shing… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den up I gits an' piles 'em on agin, an' w'en I gits in bed my shingles draps off, an' dat's de way it wuz de whole blessid night. Who acts: you, I, shingles, dat. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, with its dependency tree and
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, sentence 18

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Den up I gits an' piles 'em on agin, an' w'en I gits in bed my shingles draps off, an' dat's de way it wuz de whole blessid night.

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**Who acts:** you, I, shingles, dat · **What happens:** den up, git, drap off, wuz · **To what, where:** bed, gits

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. the Old Man's Troubles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, shingles, dat), 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:pg2306:66:18
# text = Den up I gits an' piles 'em on agin, an' w'en I gits in bed my shingles draps off, an' dat's de way it wuz de whole blessid night.
1	Den	den	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gits	git	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	parataxis	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	piles	pile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	'em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	agin	agin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	gits	git	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	shingles	shingle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	draps	drap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
26	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
32	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	flat:foreign	_	_
33	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	blessid	blessid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **den up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **git** |  | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **git** |  | I |  |  | bed |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **drap off** | present | my shingles | gits *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **wuz** |  | dat |  |  |  | night |  | 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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