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title: You er gittin' close at 'im,' sezee, 'en leb'm mo' licks'll fetch 'i… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: You er gittin' close at 'im,' sezee, 'en leb'm mo' licks'll fetch 'im,' sezee. Who acts: You, mo licks. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 32

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You er gittin' close at 'im,' sezee, 'en leb'm mo' licks'll fetch 'im,' sezee.

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**Who acts:** You, mo licks · **What happens:** er, be, fetch · **To what, where:** gittin, leb mo, sezee

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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 (You, mo licks), 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:pg2306:11:32
# text = You er gittin' close at 'im,' sezee, 'en leb'm mo' licks'll fetch 'im,' sezee.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	er	er	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	gittin	gittin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	leb	leb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	licks	lick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	im	im	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
26	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **er** | present | You | gittin |  |  |  | sezee *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | leb mo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fetch** | future | mo licks | sezee |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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