--- title: I can't pull loose,' sez she, 'but ef you'll come en ketch holt er m… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: I can't pull loose,' sez she, 'but ef you'll come en ketch holt er my tail, Brer Rabbit,' sez she, 'I reckin may be I kin fetch my horn out,' sez she. Who acts: I, ef. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/12/52/) [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/) / 52 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 52 I can't pull loose,' sez she, 'but ef you'll come en ketch holt er my tail, Brer Rabbit,' sez she, 'I reckin may be I kin fetch my horn out,' sez she. **Who acts:** I, ef · **What happens:** not pull, say, come, reckin, be · **To what, where:** Cow, en ketch holt · **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 (I, ef), 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:pg2306:12:52 # text = I can't pull loose,' sez she, 'but ef you'll come en ketch holt er my tail, Brer Rabbit,' sez she, 'I reckin may be I kin fetch my horn out,' sez she. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 8 sez say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 11 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 ef ef NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 17 en en ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 ketch ketch NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 holt holt NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 er er ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 25 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 28 sez say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 31 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 reckin reckin NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 34 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 38 cop _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 kin kin PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 fetch fetch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 parataxis _ _ 39 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 horn horn NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 out out ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ _ 44 sez say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 45 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **pull** | can | I | | | | | loose *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | I *not said here* | Cow | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic | | 3 | **come** | future | ef | en ketch holt | | | | er my tail | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location holt=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | Cow | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic | | 5 | **reckin** | | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | may | I | | | | | fetch *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | Cow | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=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 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/12/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/12/53/) - ↑ back to [IX. 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