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title: "'Brer Possum, you run down ter de spring en fetch de butter, en I'l… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Brer Possum, you run down ter de spring en fetch de butter, en I'll sail 'roun' yer en set de table,' sezee. Who acts: you, Uncle Remus, roun. 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 pr
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 32

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"'Brer Possum, you run down ter de spring en fetch de butter, en I'll sail 'roun' yer en set de table,' sezee.

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**Who acts:** you, Uncle Remus, roun · **What happens:** run down, sail, table · **To what, where:** ter, en · **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 (you, Uncle Remus, roun), 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:pg2306:20:32
# text = "'Brer Possum, you run down ter de spring en fetch de butter, en I'll sail 'roun' yer en set de table,' sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	de	de	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	fetch	fetch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	compound	_	_
15	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	yer	y	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
25	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
31	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run down** *in a quote* | present | you | ter |  |  |  | de spring en fetch and de butter and en | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ter=Trajectory |
| 2 | **sail** *in a quote* | future | Uncle Remus *= remus* | en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme |
| 3 | **table** *in a quote* |  | roun |  |  |  |  |  | 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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