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title: "'Dey er some mighty nice 'simmons up dis tree, Sis Cow,' sez Brer R… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Dey er some mighty nice 'simmons up dis tree, Sis Cow,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'en I'd like mighty well fer ter have some un um,' sezee. Who acts: UNCLE REMUS, fer ter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, with 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 17

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"'Dey er some mighty nice 'simmons up dis tree, Sis Cow,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'en I'd like mighty well fer ter have some un um,' sezee.

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**Who acts:** UNCLE REMUS, fer ter · **What happens:** say, like, have · **To what, where:** Brer Rabbit, en, un um · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, fer ter), 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:pg2306:12:17
# text = "'Dey er some mighty nice 'simmons up dis tree, Sis Cow,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'en I'd like mighty well fer ter have some un um,' sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Dey	Dey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
6	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	simmons	simmon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Sis	Sis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
18	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	parataxis	_	_
29	mighty	mighty	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
31	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	amod	_	_
32	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	parataxis	_	_
34	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
35	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	_
39	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present |  | Brer Rabbit and sezee |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rabbit=Topic |
| 2 | **like** *in a quote* | would | UNCLE REMUS *= remus* | en |  |  |  | mighty *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | fer ter | some un um and sezee |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient |

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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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