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title: "Sorter splimmy-splammy, honey--sorter like he in a crowd--sorter li… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Sorter splimmy-splammy, honey--sorter like he in a crowd--sorter like his ole 'oman ain't dead ez she mout be. Who acts: she mout. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 28

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"Sorter splimmy-splammy, honey--sorter like he in a crowd--sorter like his ole 'oman ain't dead ez she mout be.

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**Who acts:** she mout · **What happens:** ez, be · **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 (she mout), 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:pg2306:20:28
# text = "Sorter splimmy-splammy, honey--sorter like he in a crowd--sorter like his ole 'oman ain't dead ez she mout be.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sorter	Sorter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	splimmy	splimmy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	splammy	splammy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
19	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	oman	oman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
25	ez	ez	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	compound	_	_
27	mout	mout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ez** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | infinitive | she mout |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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