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title: Dat's me, up an' down, an' I boun' dere's a nigger some'rs on de roa… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dat's me, up an' down, an' I boun' dere's a nigger some'rs on de road dis blessid day dat's got dis put away in his 'membunce." Who acts: I, dere, nigger, dat. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. the Fourth of July, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 14

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Dat's me, up an' down, an' I boun' dere's a nigger some'rs on de road dis blessid day dat's got dis put away in his 'membunce."

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**Who acts:** I, dere, nigger, dat · **What happens:** boun, be, some'r, get, put away · **To what, where:** nigger, boun, dis, membunce

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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 (I, dere, nigger, 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:pg2306:67:14
# text = Dat's me, up an' down, an' I boun' dere's a nigger some'rs on de road dis blessid day dat's got dis put away in his 'membunce."
1	Dat	Dat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	boun	boun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
15	dere	dere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	some'rs	some'r	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	de	de	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	blessid	blessid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	membunce	membunce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	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 | **boun** |  | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | dere | a nigger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **some'r** | present | a nigger | a boun *not said here* |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | present · passive | dat | dis |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dis=Stimulus |
| 5 | **put away** | participle |  | dis *not said here* |  | dat's membunce |  | away *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in membunce=Destination |

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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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