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title: "'How you git 'im off, Brer Rabbit?' sez Miss Meadows, sez she. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'How you git 'im off, Brer Rabbit?' sez Miss Meadows, sez she. Who acts: sez Miss Meadows. 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 clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 50

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"'How you git 'im off, Brer Rabbit?' sez Miss Meadows, sez she.

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**Who acts:** sez Miss Meadows · **What happens:** im off, say · **To what, where:** you, er · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (sez Miss Meadows), 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:pg2306:13:50
# text = "'How you git 'im off, Brer Rabbit?' sez Miss Meadows, sez she.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	im	im	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
14	sez	sez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Meadows	Meadow	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **im off** *in a quote* | participle · passive |  | you |  |  |  | Brer Rabbit *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | sez Miss Meadows | er |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic |

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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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