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title: "'Drive 'im out, den,' sez Mr. Buzzard, sezee, 'en I'll see dat Brer… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Drive 'im out, den,' sez Mr. Buzzard, sezee, 'en I'll see dat Brer Tukkey Buzzard gits 'im,' sezee. Who acts: Drive, Buzzard. 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 claus
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 54

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"'Drive 'im out, den,' sez Mr. Buzzard, sezee, 'en I'll see dat Brer Tukkey Buzzard gits 'im,' sezee.

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**Who acts:** Drive, Buzzard · **What happens:** im out, say, see · **To what, where:** Drive, en · **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 (Drive, Buzzard), 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:pg2306:10:54
# text = "'Drive 'im out, den,' sez Mr. Buzzard, sezee, 'en I'll see dat Brer Tukkey Buzzard gits 'im,' sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Drive	drive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	im	im	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
11	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:desc	_	_
13	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
22	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:desc	_	_
23	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	Tukkey	Tukkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
26	gits	git	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	'	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
31	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **im out** *in a quote* | participle |  | Drive and den *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Drive and den |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | future | Buzzard  Mr. and sezee | en |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brer=Stimulus |

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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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