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title: "'Come he'p me out, Brer Rabbit,' sez Miss Cow, sez she. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Come he'p me out, Brer Rabbit,' sez Miss Cow, sez she. Who acts: you, sez Miss Cow. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 29

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"'Come he'p me out, Brer Rabbit,' sez Miss Cow, sez she.

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**Who acts:** you, sez Miss Cow · **What happens:** come out, say · **To what, where:** he'p, Cow · **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 (you, sez Miss Cow), 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:pg2306:12:29
# text = "'Come he'p me out, Brer Rabbit,' sez Miss Cow, sez she.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	he'p	he'p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
12	sez	sez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | he'p |  |  |  | Brer Rabbit *obl* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient he'p=Result |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | sez Miss Cow *not said here* | Cow |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=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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