--- title: "EF I don't run inter no mistakes," remarked Uncle Remus, as the lit… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "EF I don't run inter no mistakes," remarked Uncle Remus, as the little boy came tripping in to see him after supper, "Mr. Tukkey Buzzard wuz gyardin' de holler whar Brer Rabbit went in at, en w'ich he come out un." Who acts: EF, Uncle Remus, little boy, Tukkey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/11/1/) [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/) / [VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzz…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/11/) / 1 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 1 "EF I don't run inter no mistakes," remarked Uncle Remus, as the little boy came tripping in to see him after supper, "Mr. Tukkey Buzzard wuz gyardin' de holler whar Brer Rabbit went in at, en w'ich he come out un." **Who acts:** EF, Uncle Remus, little boy, Tukkey · **What happens:** not run, remark, come, trip, see, go in · **To what, where:** inter mistakes, boy, en w'ich, un · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (EF, Uncle Remus, little boy, Tukkey), 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:pg2306:11:1 # text = "EF I don't run inter no mistakes," remarked Uncle Remus, as the little boy came tripping in to see him after supper, "Mr. Tukkey Buzzard wuz gyardin' de holler whar Brer Rabbit went in at, en w'ich he come out un." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 EF ef NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 inter int ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 amod _ _ 8 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 9 det _ _ 9 mistakes mistake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 remarked remark VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 advcl _ _ 13 Uncle Uncle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 Remus Remus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 21 tripping trip VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 xcomp _ _ 22 in in ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 after after ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 supper supper NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod:desc _ _ 31 Tukkey Tukkey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 32 Buzzard Buzzard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 flat _ _ 33 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 gyardin gyardin NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 36 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 38 compound _ _ 37 holler holler NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 whar whar NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 39 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 appos _ _ 40 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 flat _ _ 41 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 42 in in ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 43 at at ADP IN _ 46 case _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 w'ich w'ich NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 47 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 parataxis _ _ 49 out out ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 50 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **run** *in a quote* | present · do-support | EF | no inter mistakes | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent mistake=Theme clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle | Uncle Remus | | | | | | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come** | past | the little boy | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **trip** | gerund | the little boy *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | the little boy *not said here* | boy | | | after supper | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 6 | **go in** *in a quote* | past | Tukkey Mr. | | | en w'ich | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at w'ich=Location | | 7 | **come out** *in a quote* | present | Tukkey | un | | | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient un=Result | 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: [VII. 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