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title: I lef' you yer fer ter watch dish yere hole, en I lef' Brer Rabbit i… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I lef' you yer fer ter watch dish yere hole, en I lef' Brer Rabbit in dar. Who acts: I, fer. 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 41

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I lef' you yer fer ter watch dish yere hole, en I lef' Brer Rabbit in dar.

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**Who acts:** I, fer · **What happens:** lef, watch · **To what, where:** dish

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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 (I, fer), 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:pg2306:11:41
# text = I lef' you yer fer ter watch dish yere hole, en I lef' Brer Rabbit in dar.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lef	lef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	ter	ter	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	yere	yere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	lef	lef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
17	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lef** |  | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **watch** | infinitive | yer's fer *not said here* | dish |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent dish=Theme hole=Attribute |

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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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