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title: Hit rastles wid me monstus, en I gotter rack 'roun' en see if I kin… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hit rastles wid me monstus, en I gotter rack 'roun' en see if I kin run up agin some Chris'mus leavin's." Who acts: Hit, I, monstus. 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 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 53

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Hit rastles wid me monstus, en I gotter rack 'roun' en see if I kin run up agin some Chris'mus leavin's."

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**Who acts:** Hit, I, monstus · **What happens:** rastle, wi, gotter, see, run up, agin · **To what, where:** me, rack, Chris'mus leavin

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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 (Hit, I, monstus), 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:pg2306:11:53
# text = Hit rastles wid me monstus, en I gotter rack 'roun' en see if I kin run up agin some Chris'mus leavin's."
1	Hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rastles	rastle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	monstus	monstus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gotter	gotter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	rack	rack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	kin	kin	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	agin	agin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
23	Chris'mus	Chris'mus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	leavin	leavin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	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 | **rastle** | present | Hit |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wi** | past | Hit *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gotter** | present | I | rack |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | present | monstus and en |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **run up** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I |  |  |  |  | kin *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **agin** | gerund | I *not said here* | some Chris'mus leavin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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