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title: "'I 'lowed maybe dat I might ax you fer ter butt 'gin de tree, en sh… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'I 'lowed maybe dat I might ax you fer ter butt 'gin de tree, en shake some down, Sis Cow,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. Who acts: UNCLE REMUS, dat. 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 tree and the
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 19

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"'I 'lowed maybe dat I might ax you fer ter butt 'gin de tree, en shake some down, Sis Cow,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.

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**Who acts:** UNCLE REMUS, dat · **What happens:** low, ax, shake down, say · **To what, where:** you, some, Brer · **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, dat), 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:pg2306:12:19
# text = "'I 'lowed maybe dat I might ax you fer ter butt 'gin de tree, en shake some down, Sis Cow,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	lowed	low	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	ax	ax	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
13	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	butt	butt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	gin	gin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	flat:foreign	_	_
18	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	obj	_	_
23	down	down	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	Sis	Sis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
29	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
30	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **low** *in a quote* | past | UNCLE REMUS *= remus* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ax** *in a quote* | might | dat | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **shake down** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | some |  |  |  | down *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent some=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | UNCLE REMUS *= remus* *not said here* | Brer |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=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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