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title: Dey useter call me er bad nigger long 'fo' de war, an hit looks like… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dey useter call me er bad nigger long 'fo' de war, an hit looks like ter me dat I gits wuss an' wuss. Who acts: you, hit, I. 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 34

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Dey useter call me er bad nigger long 'fo' de war, an hit looks like ter me dat I gits wuss an' wuss.

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**Who acts:** you, hit, I · **What happens:** call, look, wuss · **To what, where:** me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, hit, I), 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:pg2306:67:34
# text = Dey useter call me er bad nigger long 'fo' de war, an hit looks like ter me dat I gits wuss an' wuss.
1	Dey	Dey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	useter	useter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
6	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	13	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	compound	_	_
13	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
21	dat	dat	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	gits	git	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	compound	_	_
24	wuss	wuss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
27	wuss	wuss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  | long *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 2 | **look** | present | a hit |  |  |  |  | like me | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **wuss** |  | I |  |  |  |  |  | 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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