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title: Dish yer pie," Uncle Remus continued, holding it up and measuring it… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dish yer pie," Uncle Remus continued, holding it up and measuring it with an experienced eye, "will gimme strenk fer ter persoo on atter Brer Fox en Brer Rabbit en de udder creeturs w'at dey roped in 'long wid um." Who acts: you, Uncle, udder creeturs. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His S
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 6

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Dish yer pie," Uncle Remus continued, holding it up and measuring it with an experienced eye, "will gimme strenk fer ter persoo on atter Brer Fox en Brer Rabbit en de udder creeturs w'at dey roped in 'long wid um."

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**Who acts:** you, Uncle, udder creeturs · **What happens:** dish, continue, hold up, measure, gimme, rope · **To what, where:** pie, strenk, Rabbit en, long wid um · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Uncle, udder creeturs), 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:pg2306:14:6
# text = Dish yer pie," Uncle Remus continued, holding it up and measuring it with an experienced eye, "will gimme strenk fer ter persoo on atter Brer Fox en Brer Rabbit en de udder creeturs w'at dey roped in 'long wid um."
1	Dish	dish	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	pie	pie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
6	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	measuring	measure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	experienced	experienced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	gimme	gimme	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
24	strenk	strenk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
26	ter	ter	X	FW	_	27	compound	_	_
27	persoo	persoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
30	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
33	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
36	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	35	flat:foreign	_	_
37	udder	udder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	creeturs	creetur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
39	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
41	roped	rope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
45	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dish** | imperative | you *not said here* | yer's pie |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **continue** *in a quote* | past | Uncle |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hold up** *in a quote* | gerund | Uncle *not said here* | pie |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 4 | **measure** *in a quote* | gerund | Uncle *not said here* | pie |  |  |  | with a experienced eye | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme it=Value |
| 5 | **gimme** | future | you *not said here* | strenk |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **rope** | past | udder creeturs and w'at dey | Rabbit en *not said here* |  | long wid um |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Patient |

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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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