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title: "He wuz tryin' fer ter fling Brer Rabbit off'n his back, bless yo' s… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "He wuz tryin' fer ter fling Brer Rabbit off'n his back, bless yo' soul! Who acts: amble. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 27

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"He wuz tryin' fer ter fling Brer Rabbit off'n his back, bless yo' soul!

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**Who acts:** amble · **What happens:** tryin, bless · **To what, where:** yo soul

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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 (amble), 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:pg2306:10:27
# text = "He wuz tryin' fer ter fling Brer Rabbit off'n his back, bless yo' soul!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tryin	tryin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
7	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	fling	fling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
10	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	off'n	off'n	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	bless	bless	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tryin** *in a quote* |  | amble |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bless** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | yo soul |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme |

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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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