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title: Boss, de nigger dat mauled me ain't bo'nded yit, an' dey er got ter… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Boss, de nigger dat mauled me ain't bo'nded yit, an' dey er got ter have anudder war 'fo one is bo'nded." Who acts: Boss, dey er, ter. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 18

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Boss, de nigger dat mauled me ain't bo'nded yit, an' dey er got ter have anudder war 'fo one is bo'nded."

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**Who acts:** Boss, dey er, ter · **What happens:** maul, not bo'nd, get, have, bo'nd · **To what, where:** me, anudder war, one

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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 (Boss, dey er, ter), 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:pg2306:67:18
# text = Boss, de nigger dat mauled me ain't bo'nded yit, an' dey er got ter have anudder war 'fo one is bo'nded."
1	Boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	mauled	maul	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	ai	ai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	bo'nded	bo'nd	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	yit	yit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
15	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
18	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	anudder	anudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	26	mark	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	bo'nded	bo'nd	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **maul** | past | Boss and de nigger dat | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **bo'nd** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | past | dey er |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **have** | present | ter | anudder war |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Patient |
| 5 | **bo'nd** | present · passive |  | one |  |  |  |  | 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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