--- title: "'Oh, nuthin' in 'tickler, 'cep' dere's de fattes' gray squir'l in y… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'Oh, nuthin' in 'tickler, 'cep' dere's de fattes' gray squir'l in yer dat ever I see,' sezee, 'en ef Brer Tukkey Buzzard wuz 'roun' he'd be mighty glad fer ter git 'im,' sezee. Who acts: Den, cep. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/10/51/) [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/) / 51 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 51 "'Oh, nuthin' in 'tickler, 'cep' dere's de fattes' gray squir'l in yer dat ever I see,' sezee, 'en ef Brer Tukkey Buzzard wuz 'roun' he'd be mighty glad fer ter git 'im,' sezee. **Who acts:** Den, cep · **What happens:** see, be · **To what, where:** dat, mighty git im 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 (Den, cep), 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:pg2306:10:51 # text = "'Oh, nuthin' in 'tickler, 'cep' dere's de fattes' gray squir'l in yer dat ever I see,' sezee, 'en ef Brer Tukkey Buzzard wuz 'roun' he'd be mighty glad fer ter git 'im,' sezee. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 nuthin nuthin NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 tickler tickler NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 cep cep NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 dere dere NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 fattes fatte NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ' 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 gray gray ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 squir'l squir'l NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 yer yer PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 26 advmod _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 29 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 ef ef NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 34 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 appos _ _ 35 Tukkey Tukkey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 flat _ _ 36 Buzzard Buzzard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 flat _ _ 37 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 38 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 43 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 50 cop _ _ 44 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 45 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 46 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 48 git git NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 49 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 im im NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 53 punct _ _ 53 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present | Den | yer's dat *not said here* | | | ever | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dat=Stimulus | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | would | cep | mighty git im and sezee | | | | | tree rules | 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 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/10/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/10/52/) - ↑ back to [VII. 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