--- title: "I'd er rid 'im over dis mawnin', ladies,' sezee, but I rid 'im so h… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "I'd er rid 'im over dis mawnin', ladies,' sezee, but I rid 'im so hard yistiddy dat he went lame in de off fo' leg, en I speck I'll hatter swop 'im off yit,' sezee. Who acts: Brer, im yistiddy dat. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appea --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/17/) [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/) / [X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/) / 17 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 17 "I'd er rid 'im over dis mawnin', ladies,' sezee, but I rid 'im so hard yistiddy dat he went lame in de off fo' leg, en I speck I'll hatter swop 'im off yit,' sezee. **Who acts:** Brer, im yistiddy dat · **What happens:** er, rid, im, go off, speck, swop · **To what, where:** ladies, de, en · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer, im yistiddy dat), 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:pg2306:13:17 # text = "I'd er rid 'im over dis mawnin', ladies,' sezee, but I rid 'im so hard yistiddy dat he went lame in de off fo' leg, en I speck I'll hatter swop 'im off yit,' sezee. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 er er VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 rid rid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 im im ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 8 over over ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 dis dis NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 mawnin mawnin NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ', ', PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 rid rid VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 im im VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ _ 24 yistiddy yistiddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 28 lame lame ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 off off ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 32 fo for ADP IN Abbr=Yes 34 case _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 34 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 37 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 speck speck VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 hatter hatter NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 swop swop NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 ccomp _ _ 43 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 im im VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 46 amod _ _ 45 off off ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ _ 46 yit yit NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ _ 49 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **er** *in a quote* | would | Brer and en *= brer* | ladies and sezee | | | | rid *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **rid** *in a quote* | past | Brer and en *= brer* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **im** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go off** *in a quote* | past | im yistiddy dat | | | de | | for leg and en; lame *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in de=Location | | 5 | **speck** *in a quote* | present | Brer and en *= brer* | en *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **swop** *in a quote* | future | Brer and en *= brer* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **im off** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | 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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/18/) - ↑ back to [X. 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