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title: Dish yer col' snap rastles wid my bones, now," continued the old man… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dish yer col' snap rastles wid my bones, now," continued the old man, putting on his hat and picking up his walking-stick. " Who acts: you, snap. 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 th
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 52

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Dish yer col' snap rastles wid my bones, now," continued the old man, putting on his hat and picking up his walking-stick. "

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**Who acts:** you, snap · **What happens:** dish, rastle, continue, put, pick up · **To what, where:** col, wid bones, old man, hat, walking stick · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, snap), 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:pg2306:11:52
# text = Dish yer col' snap rastles wid my bones, now," continued the old man, putting on his hat and picking up his walking-stick. "
1	Dish	dish	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	col	col	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	snap	snap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	rastles	rastle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
14	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	picking	pick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
27	walking	walking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dish** | imperative | you *not said here* | yer's col |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rastle** | present | snap | my wid bones |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **continue** *in a quote* | past |  | the old man |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 4 | **put** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  | snap's hat |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on hat=Destination |
| 5 | **pick up** *in a quote* | gerund |  | snap's walking stick |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Topic |

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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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