--- title: "I lay yo' mammy 'll 'spishun dat de rats' stummicks is widenin' in… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "I lay yo' mammy 'll 'spishun dat de rats' stummicks is widenin' in dis neighborhood w'en she come fer ter count up 'er cakes," said Uncle Remus, with a chuckle. " Who acts: Uncle Remus, mammy, Seein, fer ter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. F --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/10/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/10/) / 13 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 13 "I lay yo' mammy 'll 'spishun dat de rats' stummicks is widenin' in dis neighborhood w'en she come fer ter count up 'er cakes," said Uncle Remus, with a chuckle. " **Who acts:** Uncle Remus, mammy, Seein, fer ter · **What happens:** lay, be, come, count up, say · **To what, where:** yo, widenin, dis neighborhood w'en, er cakes · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle Remus, mammy, Seein, fer ter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:10:13 # text = "I lay yo' mammy 'll 'spishun dat de rats' stummicks is widenin' in dis neighborhood w'en she come fer ter count up 'er cakes," said Uncle Remus, with a chuckle. " 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 yo you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 mammy mammy NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 7 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 spishun spishun NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ' 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 stummicks stummick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 widenin widenin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 dis dis NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 neighborhood neighborhood NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 24 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 amod _ _ 25 ter ter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 count count VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 er er NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 cakes cake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 33 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 Uncle Uncle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 Remus Remus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 chuckle chuckle NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** *in a quote* | present | Uncle Remus *= remus* | yo | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Result | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | mammy | widenin | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | Seein | | | dis neighborhood w'en | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in w'en=Location | | 4 | **count up** *in a quote* | present | fer ter | er cakes | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Uncle Remus | er cakes *not said here* | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cake=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/10/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/10/14/) - ↑ back to [VII. 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