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title: Des now, w'en you run in and broke me up, I wuz fetchin' into my min… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Des now, w'en you run in and broke me up, I wuz fetchin' into my mine w'at Brer Tarrypin say ter Brer Fox w'en he turn 'im loose in de branch." Who acts: you, I, Brer, ter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, with its 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, sentence 13

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Des now, w'en you run in and broke me up, I wuz fetchin' into my mine w'at Brer Tarrypin say ter Brer Fox w'en he turn 'im loose in de branch."

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**Who acts:** you, I, Brer, ter, w'en · **What happens:** run, break up, wuz, say, w'en, turn · **To what, where:** w'en, me, fetchin, mine w'at · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Brer, ter), 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:pg2306:17:13
# text = Des now, w'en you run in and broke me up, I wuz fetchin' into my mine w'at Brer Tarrypin say ter Brer Fox w'en he turn 'im loose in de branch."
1	Des	des	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
15	fetchin	fetchin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	compound	_	_
20	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
21	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
24	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	appos	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	im	im	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	xcomp	_	_
32	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | you | des w'en |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **break up** | past | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 3 | **wuz** | present | I | fetchin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Brer |  |  | my mine w'at |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **w'en** |  | ter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **turn** | infinitive | w'en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **im** | participle | w'en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loose *property* | 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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