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title: I des wanter tell you dat I wish mighty bad Brer Tukkey Buzzard wuz… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I des wanter tell you dat I wish mighty bad Brer Tukkey Buzzard wuz here,' sezee. Who acts: I, you. 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 48

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I des wanter tell you dat I wish mighty bad Brer Tukkey Buzzard wuz here,' sezee.

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** tell, dat, wish · **To what, where:** mighty bad Buzzard wuz · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, you), 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:pg2306:10:48
# text = I des wanter tell you dat I wish mighty bad Brer Tukkey Buzzard wuz here,' sezee.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	des	des	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wanter	wanter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	dat	dat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
10	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
11	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	Tukkey	Tukkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **dat** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wish** | present | I | mighty bad Buzzard wuz |  | here |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wuz=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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