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title: You know dis yer life ev'lastin' w'at Miss Sally puts 'mong de cloze… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: You know dis yer life ev'lastin' w'at Miss Sally puts 'mong de cloze in de trunk; well, dat's rabbit terbacker. Who acts: You. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 33

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You know dis yer life ev'lastin' w'at Miss Sally puts 'mong de cloze in de trunk; well, dat's rabbit terbacker.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** know · **To what, where:** dis

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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:pg2306:16:33
# text = You know dis yer life ev'lastin' w'at Miss Sally puts 'mong de cloze in de trunk; well, dat's rabbit terbacker.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	yer	y	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
5	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ev'lastin	ev'lastin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
10	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	puts	put	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	'	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	mong	mong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	de	de	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	cloze	cloze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	terbacker	terbacker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | You | dis and yer life ev'lastin and w'at and puts's Miss mong de cloze in de trunk |  |  |  | rabbit terbacker *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dis=Stimulus |

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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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