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title: "'I can't clime, Sis Cow,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'but I'll run'n t… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'I can't clime, Sis Cow,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'but I'll run'n tell Brer Bull,' sezee; en wid dat Brer Rabbit put out fer home, en 'twan't long 'fo here he come wid his ole 'oman en all his chilluns, en de las' one er de fambly wuz totin' a pail. Who acts: UNCLE REMUS, clime, en wid dat, dat. A 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 30

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"'I can't clime, Sis Cow,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'but I'll run'n tell Brer Bull,' sezee; en wid dat Brer Rabbit put out fer home, en 'twan't long 'fo here he come wid his ole 'oman en all his chilluns, en de las' one er de fambly wuz totin' a pail.

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**Who acts:** UNCLE REMUS, clime, en wid dat, dat, las · **What happens:** not clime, say, tell, put out, come, wi · **To what, where:** Brer, Brer Bull, fer, chilluns, ole oman en · **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, clime, en wid dat, 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:pg2306:12:30
# text = "'I can't clime, Sis Cow,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'but I'll run'n tell Brer Bull,' sezee; en wid dat Brer Rabbit put out fer home, en 'twan't long 'fo here he come wid his ole 'oman en all his chilluns, en de las' one er de fambly wuz totin' a pail.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	clime	clime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Sis	Sis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
12	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	run'n	run'n	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
24	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
28	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
34	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	_
35	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	advcl	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	home	home	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
41	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	twa	twa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
44	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	42	advmod	_	_
45	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	47	case	_	_
47	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	obl	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	come	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
50	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	conj	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
52	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
53	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	oman	oman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
56	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	58	det:predet	_	_
57	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	chilluns	chillun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
60	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	conj	_	_
61	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	58	conj	_	_
62	las	la	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	69	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	'	's	PART	POS	_	62	case	_	_
64	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	65	nummod	_	_
65	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	nsubj	_	_
66	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	69	compound	_	_
67	fambly	fambly	ADV	RB	_	69	advmod	_	_
68	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	compound	_	_
69	totin	totin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	69	punct	_	_
71	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	72	det	_	_
72	pail	pail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **clime** *in a quote* | can | UNCLE REMUS *= remus* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | clime and Sis Cow | Brer |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | UNCLE REMUS *= remus* |  | Brer Bull and sezee |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bull=Recipient |
| 4 | **put out** *in a quote* | past | en wid dat | fer |  |  |  | home *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fer=Goal |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | present | dat | dat's chilluns and en and de wuz totin |  |  |  | a pail *obl:unmarked* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **wi** *in a quote* | past | dat *not said here* | dat's ole oman en |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **totin** *in a quote* |  | las |  |  |  |  | fambly *property* | 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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