--- title: "'Oh, I'm des toler'ble myse'f, Sis Cow; sorter linger'n' twix' a ba… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'Oh, I'm des toler'ble myse'f, Sis Cow; sorter linger'n' twix' a bauk en a break-down,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. Who acts: UNCLE REMUS, des toler'ble myse'f. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/12/13/) [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/) / [IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rab…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/12/) / 13 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 13 "'Oh, I'm des toler'ble myse'f, Sis Cow; sorter linger'n' twix' a bauk en a break-down,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. **Who acts:** UNCLE REMUS, des toler'ble myse'f · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** des toler'ble myse'f, Brer · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (UNCLE REMUS, des toler'ble myse'f), 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:pg2306:12:13 # text = "'Oh, I'm des toler'ble myse'f, Sis Cow; sorter linger'n' twix' a bauk en a break-down,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 9 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 des des X FW _ 9 compound _ _ 8 toler'ble toler'ble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 myse'f myse'f NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 Sis Sis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 Cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 sorter sorter NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 linger'n linger'n NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 twix twix NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 bauk bauk NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 break break NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 down down NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 28 sez say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 29 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | UNCLE REMUS *= remus* | des toler'ble myse'f and Sis Cow and sorter linger'n and a bauk en a break down | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | des toler'ble myse'f and Sis Cow and sorter linger'n and a bauk en a break down | Brer | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | 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: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/12/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/12/14/) - ↑ back to [IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/12/)