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title: '"DE animils en de creeturs," said Uncle Remus, shaking his coffee a… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: '"DE animils en de creeturs," said Uncle Remus, shaking his coffee around in the bottom of his tin-cup, in order to gather up all the sugar, 'dey kep' on gittin' mo' en mo' familious wid wunner nudder, twel bimeby, 'twan't long 'fo' Brer Rabbit, en Brer Fox, en Brer Possum got ter sorter bunchin' de
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 1

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'"DE animils en de creeturs," said Uncle Remus, shaking his coffee around in the bottom of his tin-cup, in order to gather up all the sugar, 'dey kep' on gittin' mo' en mo' familious wid wunner nudder, twel bimeby, 'twan't long 'fo' Brer Rabbit, en Brer Fox, en Brer Possum got ter sorter bunchin' der perwishuns tergedder in de same shanty.

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**Who acts:** en creeturs, dey, en · **What happens:** say, shake around, gather up, kep, get · **To what, where:** coffee, bottom, sugar, en mo, ter sorter bunchin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (en creeturs, dey, en), 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:pg2306:20:1
# text = '"DE animils en de creeturs," said Uncle Remus, shaking his coffee around in the bottom of his tin-cup, in order to gather up all the sugar, 'dey kep' on gittin' mo' en mo' familious wid wunner nudder, twel bimeby, 'twan't long 'fo' Brer Rabbit, en Brer Fox, en Brer Possum got ter sorter bunchin' der perwishuns tergedder in de same shanty.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	DE	DE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	animils	animil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
7	creeturs	creetur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	around	around	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	30	mark	_	_
28	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	fixed	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	gather	gather	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	kep	kep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	gittin	gittin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	_
43	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
45	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	51	punct	_	_
48	familious	familious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
49	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
50	wunner	wunner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	nudder	nudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	twa	twa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	59	advmod	_	_
59	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	57	advmod	_	_
60	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	64	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	64	punct	_	_
63	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	compound	_	_
64	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
66	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	_
67	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	68	compound	_	_
68	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	70	punct	_	_
70	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	nsubj	_	_
71	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	70	appos	_	_
72	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	71	flat	_	_
73	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	_
74	ter	ter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	76	amod	_	_
75	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	76	compound	_	_
76	bunchin	bunchin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	76	punct	_	_
78	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	79	amod	_	_
79	perwishuns	perwishun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	80	compound	_	_
80	tergedder	tergedder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	76	conj	_	_
81	in	in	ADP	IN	_	84	case	_	_
82	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	84	amod	_	_
83	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	84	amod	_	_
84	shanty	shanty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	80	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
85	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | en creeturs |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shake around** | gerund | en creeturs *not said here* | Remus's coffee |  | the bottom of Remus's tin cup |  | around *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent coffee=Theme in bottom=Trajectory |
| 3 | **gather up** | to-infinitive |  | all sugar |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Theme |
| 4 | **kep** | infinitive | dey | en mo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **get** | past | en | ter sorter bunchin and perwishuns tergedder in de same shanty |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bunchin=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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