--- title: "'Oh, no, ma'am,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee, 'he didn't cusst, but he… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'Oh, no, ma'am,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee, 'he didn't cusst, but he holler out--"Heyo, Stinkin' Jim!"' sezee. Who acts: Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/22/) [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/) / 22 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 22 "'Oh, no, ma'am,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee, 'he didn't cusst, but he holler out--"Heyo, Stinkin' Jim!"' sezee. **Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** say, not cusst out, holler · **To what, where:** Brer, Heyo · **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), 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:pg2306:13:22 # text = "'Oh, no, ma'am,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee, 'he didn't cusst, but he holler out--"Heyo, Stinkin' Jim!"' sezee. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 10 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 ma'am ma'am NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 10 sez say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 Tarrypin Tarrypin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 19 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 cusst cusst VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 holler holler NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 25 out out ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 26 -- -- PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 Heyo Heyo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 Stinkin Stinkin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ' 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 Jim Jim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ! ! PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ' 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 36 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 flat:foreign _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | | Brer | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | | 2 | **not** **cusst out** *in a quote* | past · do-support | Brer | Heyo | | | | 's Stinkin's Jim | tree rules | | 3 | **holler** *speech: other* *in a quote* | | Brer | | | | | | 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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/23/) - ↑ back to [X. 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