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title: I des say ter myse'f dat I'd sorter sprize you all wid a mess er fis… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I des say ter myse'f dat I'd sorter sprize you all wid a mess er fishes fer dinner, en so here I is, en dar's de fishes. Who acts: I, you, mess er. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, with its dependency tree and
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 30

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I des say ter myse'f dat I'd sorter sprize you all wid a mess er fishes fer dinner, en so here I is, en dar's de fishes.

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**Who acts:** I, you, mess er · **What happens:** say, sprize, wid, fish, be · **To what, where:** ter myse'f dat, fer dinner · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, mess er), 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:pg2306:19:30
# text = I des say ter myse'f dat I'd sorter sprize you all wid a mess er fishes fer dinner, en so here I is, en dar's de fishes.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	des	des	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	myse'f	myse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	sprize	sprize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
13	wid	wid	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	fishes	fish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
18	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	parataxis	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | I | ter myse'f dat |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dat=Topic |
| 2 | **sprize** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wid** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fish** | present | a mess er | fer dinner and en |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | here *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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