--- title: "'Law, Brer Tarrypin,' sez Miss Meadows, sez she, 'you don't mean te… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'Law, Brer Tarrypin,' sez Miss Meadows, sez she, 'you don't mean ter say he cusst?' sez she, en den de gals hilt der fans up 'fo' der faces. Who acts: Law, you, ter, de gals. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/21/) [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/) / 21 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 21 "'Law, Brer Tarrypin,' sez Miss Meadows, sez she, 'you don't mean ter say he cusst?' sez she, en den de gals hilt der fans up 'fo' der faces. **Who acts:** Law, you, ter, de gals · **What happens:** say, not mean, cusst, hilt, fan up · **To what, where:** up'n · **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 (Law, you, ter, de gals), 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:pg2306:13:21 # text = "'Law, Brer Tarrypin,' sez Miss Meadows, sez she, 'you don't mean ter say he cusst?' sez she, en den de gals hilt der fans up 'fo' der faces. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Law Law PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 Tarrypin Tarrypin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 9 sez sez ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Meadows Meadow PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 sez say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 csubj _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 19 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 parataxis _ _ 21 ter ter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 cusst cusst NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ? ? PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 27 sez say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 gals gal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 hilt hilt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 35 der d ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 34 xcomp _ _ 36 fans fan VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 37 up up ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 fo for ADP IN Abbr=Yes 42 case _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 41 der d ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 42 amod _ _ 42 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Law and Brer and sez Miss Meadows | up'n | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic | | 2 | **not** **mean** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present | ter | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **cusst** *in a quote* | | ter | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | | up'n | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic | | 6 | **hilt** *in a quote* | present | de gals | | | | | d *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **fan up** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | for der faces | 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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/22/) - ↑ back to [X. 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