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title: "'Tu'n loose dat stump root en ketch holt er me--tu'n loose dat stum… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Tu'n loose dat stump root en ketch holt er me--tu'n loose dat stump root en ketch holt er me.' Who acts: Tu'n, root en, loose ketch holt. 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 pragmati
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 32

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"'Tu'n loose dat stump root en ketch holt er me--tu'n loose dat stump root en ketch holt er me.'

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**Who acts:** Tu'n, root en, loose ketch holt · **What happens:** loose, holt, er · **To what, where:** tu'n

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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 (Tu'n, root en, loose ketch holt), 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:pg2306:15:32
# text = "'Tu'n loose dat stump root en ketch holt er me--tu'n loose dat stump root en ketch holt er me.'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Tu'n	Tu'n	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	loose	loose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
6	stump	stump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	holt	holt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
11	er	er	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	tu'n	tu'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
15	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
16	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	stump	stump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	holt	holt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	er	er	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **loose** *in a quote* | past | Tu'n |  |  |  |  | er Brer | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **holt** *in a quote* |  | root en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **er** *in a quote* | past | loose ketch holt | tu'n |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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