--- title: "'Who? me?' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee; 'w'y I des tuck en tole 'im dat… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'Who? me?' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee; 'w'y I des tuck en tole 'im dat ef he didn't go 'long home en stop playin' his pranks on spectubble fokes, dat I'd take 'im out and th'ash 'im,' sezee." Who acts: little boy, Brer, long home en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/51/) [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/) / 51 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 51 "'Who? me?' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee; 'w'y I des tuck en tole 'im dat ef he didn't go 'long home en stop playin' his pranks on spectubble fokes, dat I'd take 'im out and th'ash 'im,' sezee." **Who acts:** little boy, Brer, long home en · **What happens:** say, tuck, not go, stop, take, im out · **To what, where:** Brer, w'y, playin, dat · **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 (little boy, Brer, long home en), 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:pg2306:13:51 # text = "'Who? me?' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee; 'w'y I des tuck en tole 'im dat ef he didn't go 'long home en stop playin' his pranks on spectubble fokes, dat I'd take 'im out and th'ash 'im,' sezee." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 5 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 8 sez say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 14 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 w'y w'y NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 des des DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 tuck tuck VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 19 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 tole tole NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 im im ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 ef ef NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 27 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 parataxis _ _ 29 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 34 playin playin NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 pranks prank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 spectubble spectubble NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 fokes foke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 43 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 acl:relcl _ _ 46 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 im im VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 conj _ _ 48 out out ADP RP _ 47 compound:prt _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 50 th'ash th'ash NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 compound _ _ 51 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 im im NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 55 punct _ _ 55 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 57 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 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 | **tuck** *in a quote* | present | the little boy *= boy* | w'y | | | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tole=Theme | | 3 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | past · do-support | Brer | | | | | im dat ef | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **stop** *in a quote* | present | long home en | playin | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **take** *in a quote* | would | the little boy *= boy* | dat *not said here* | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dat=Theme | | 6 | **im out** *in a quote* | infinitive | the little boy *= boy* *not said here* | | | | | | 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 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/52/) - ↑ back to [X. 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