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title: "'Ketch holt er me--I'm a drownin'--I'm a drownin'--tu'n loose de st… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Ketch holt er me--I'm a drownin'--I'm a drownin'--tu'n loose de stump root en ketch holt er me.' Who acts: Brer, 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 pragmatics of every c
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 36

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"'Ketch holt er me--I'm a drownin'--I'm a drownin'--tu'n loose de stump root en ketch holt er me.'

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**Who acts:** Brer, Ketch holt · **What happens:** be, er · **To what, where:** drownin, Brer

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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 (Brer, 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:pg2306:15:36
# text = "'Ketch holt er me--I'm a drownin'--I'm a drownin'--tu'n loose de stump root en ketch holt er me.'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Ketch	Ketch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	holt	holt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
5	er	er	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	drownin	drownin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	drownin	drownin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	tu'n	tu'n	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
22	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	stump	stump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	holt	holt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
28	er	er	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Brer | a drownin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Brer | a drownin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **er** *in a quote* | past | Ketch holt er me tu'n loose ketch holt | Brer |  |  |  |  | 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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