--- title: You hear dat, gals?' sez Miss Meadows, sez she; 'Brer Fox call Brer… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: You hear dat, gals?' sez Miss Meadows, sez she; 'Brer Fox call Brer Tarrypin Stinkin' Jim,' sez she, en den Miss Meadows en de gals make great wonderment how Brer Fox kin talk dat a way 'bout nice man like Brer Tarrypin. Who acts: You, sez Miss Meadows, Brer Fox call, en den. A sentence of «Uncle Re --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/24/) [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/) / 24 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 24 You hear dat, gals?' sez Miss Meadows, sez she; 'Brer Fox call Brer Tarrypin Stinkin' Jim,' sez she, en den Miss Meadows en de gals make great wonderment how Brer Fox kin talk dat a way 'bout nice man like Brer Tarrypin. **Who acts:** You, sez Miss Meadows, Brer Fox call, en den · **What happens:** hear, say, make · **To what, where:** dat, Heyo, great wonderment · **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 (You, sez Miss Meadows, Brer Fox call, en den), 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:pg2306:13:24 # text = You hear dat, gals?' sez Miss Meadows, sez she; 'Brer Fox call Brer Tarrypin Stinkin' Jim,' sez she, en den Miss Meadows en de gals make great wonderment how Brer Fox kin talk dat a way 'bout nice man like Brer Tarrypin. 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 gals gal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 8 sez sez ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Meadows Meadow PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 sez say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 15 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 17 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 19 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 Tarrypin Tarrypin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 flat _ _ 21 Stinkin Stinkin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ' 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 Jim Jim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 26 sez say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 31 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 Meadows Meadow PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 33 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 34 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 gals gal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 36 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 37 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 wonderment wonderment NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 43 advmod _ _ 40 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 41 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 flat _ _ 42 kin kin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 44 dat dat ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod:poss _ _ 47 ' 's PART POS _ 46 case _ SpaceAfter=No 48 bout bout NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 49 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 51 like like ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 nmod _ _ 53 Tarrypin Tarrypin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | present | You | dat and gals | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer dat=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | sez Miss Meadows | Heyo | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Brer Fox call Brer Stinkin's Jim | Heyo | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic | | 4 | **make** | present | en den Miss Meadows en de gals | great wonderment | | | | Brer kin talk dat nice man like Brer *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wonderment=Product | 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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/25/) - ↑ back to [X. 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