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title: Hit may be de fote er de fif' er July, er hit may be de twelf' er Ji… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hit may be de fote er de fif' er July, er hit may be de twelf' er Jinawerry, but w'en a Mobile nigger gits in my naberhood right den an' dar trubble sails in an' 'gages bode fer de season. Who acts: you, Mobile nigger gits. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harr
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 12

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Hit may be de fote er de fif' er July, er hit may be de twelf' er Jinawerry, but w'en a Mobile nigger gits in my naberhood right den an' dar trubble sails in an' 'gages bode fer de season.

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**Who acts:** you, Mobile nigger gits · **What happens:** hit, bide · **To what, where:** de

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. the Fourth of July. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Mobile nigger gits), 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:pg2306:67:12
# text = Hit may be de fote er de fif' er July, er hit may be de twelf' er Jinawerry, but w'en a Mobile nigger gits in my naberhood right den an' dar trubble sails in an' 'gages bode fer de season.
1	Hit	hit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	obl	_	_
5	fote	fote	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	obj	_	_
6	er	er	X	FW	_	8	compound	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat:foreign	_	_
8	fif	fif	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	er	er	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	er	er	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
14	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	obj	_	_
18	twelf	twelf	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
20	er	er	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Jinawerry	Jinawerry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	w'en	w'en	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	obj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	Mobile	mobile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	gits	git	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
31	naberhood	naberhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	_
36	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	trubble	trubble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	_
42	'	's	PART	POS	_	41	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	gages	gage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
44	bode	bide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
45	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
46	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | imperative | you *not said here* | de |  |  | july | er fif *obl* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fote=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **hit** | past | you *not said here* | de |  |  |  | er Jinawerry; twelf *obl* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent de=Patient w'en=Result |
| 3 | **bide** | past | a Mobile nigger gits in my naberhood right den |  |  |  | season |  | 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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