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title: "'Well, ef you gwineter sell 'im, Brer Rabbit,' sezee, 'sell him som… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Well, ef you gwineter sell 'im, Brer Rabbit,' sezee, 'sell him some'rs out'n dis naberhood, kase he done bin yer too long now,' sezee. ' Who acts: you, ef. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, with its dependency tr
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 19

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"'Well, ef you gwineter sell 'im, Brer Rabbit,' sezee, 'sell him some'rs out'n dis naberhood, kase he done bin yer too long now,' sezee. '

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**Who acts:** you, ef · **What happens:** gwineter, sell, do, bin · **To what, where:** ef, Brer Rabbit, some'rs, kase, yer

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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 (you, ef), 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:pg2306:13:19
# text = "'Well, ef you gwineter sell 'im, Brer Rabbit,' sezee, 'sell him some'rs out'n dis naberhood, kase he done bin yer too long now,' sezee. '
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gwineter	gwineter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	im	im	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	sell	sell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	some'rs	some'r	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	out'n	out'n	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	naberhood	naberhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	kase	kase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	done	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	bin	bin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
30	yer	yer	PRON	PRP	Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	too	too	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
33	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
36	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gwineter** *in a quote* | present | you | ef *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sell** *in a quote* | infinitive | ef | Brer Rabbit |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sell** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | some'rs out'n dis naberhood and kase | ef |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient some'r=Theme |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | past | ef | kase *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bin** *in a quote* | infinitive | ef *not said here* | yer |  |  | now | sezee *obl* | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent yer=Theme |

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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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