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title: Sot en tuck it, en de smoke sif' in my eye, en de fier scorch my bac… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Sot en tuck it, en de smoke sif' in my eye, en de fier scorch my back,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee. Who acts: Sot en, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 19

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Sot en tuck it, en de smoke sif' in my eye, en de fier scorch my back,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee.

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**Who acts:** Sot en, en · **What happens:** tuck, sif, say · **To what, where:** sezee, eye, Brer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sot en, en), 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:pg2306:15:19
# text = Sot en tuck it, en de smoke sif' in my eye, en de fier scorch my back,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee.
1	Sot	sot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tuck	tuck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat:foreign	_	_
8	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	sif	sif	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	compound	_	_
17	fier	fi	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	scorch	scorch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
23	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tuck** | infinitive | Sot en | sezee |  | my eye and en and de fier scorch |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme in eye=Trajectory |
| 2 | **sif** |  | en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Sot en *not said here* | Brer |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=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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