--- title: Bless yo' soul, honey," continued the old man, brightening up, "w'en… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Bless yo' soul, honey," continued the old man, brightening up, "w'en you git ole ez me--w'en you see w'at I sees, en year w'at I years--de creeturs dat you can't talk wid'll be mighty skase--dey will dat. Who acts: you, I, year w'at, de creeturs. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/17/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/17/) / 11 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, sentence 11 Bless yo' soul, honey," continued the old man, brightening up, "w'en you git ole ez me--w'en you see w'at I sees, en year w'at I years--de creeturs dat you can't talk wid'll be mighty skase--dey will dat. **Who acts:** you, I, year w'at, de creeturs, wid, dey · **What happens:** bless, continue, brighten up, see, year, dat · **To what, where:** yo soul, old man, w'en, years, mighty skase · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, year w'at, de creeturs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:17:11 # text = Bless yo' soul, honey," continued the old man, brightening up, "w'en you git ole ez me--w'en you see w'at I sees, en year w'at I years--de creeturs dat you can't talk wid'll be mighty skase--dey will dat. 1 Bless bless VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 yo yo NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 9 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 brightening brighten VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 git git NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 ole ole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 22 ez ez X FW Foreign=Yes 23 nsubj _ _ 23 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 24 -- -- PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 28 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 37 -- -- PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 39 compound _ _ 39 creeturs creetur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 40 dat dat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 42 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 43 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 44 advmod _ _ 44 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 ccomp _ _ 45 wid wid NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 47 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 49 cop _ _ 48 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 skase skase NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 -- -- PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nsubj _ _ 52 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 53 aux _ _ 53 dat dat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 49 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bless** | imperative | you *not said here* | yo soul and honey | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **continue** *in a quote* | past | | the old man | | | | | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Theme | | 3 | **brighten up** *in a quote* | gerund | | w'en | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **see** | present | you | w'en | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **see** | present | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **year** | | year w'at | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **dat** | present | de creeturs | years *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **not** **talk** | can | you | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is a** | future | wid | mighty skase | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **dat** | future | dey | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/17/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/17/12/) - ↑ back to [XIV. 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