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title: Present'y he say ter hisse'f dat he bleedzd ter have a nip at dat bu… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Present'y he say ter hisse'f dat he bleedzd ter have a nip at dat butter, en den he lay his plans, he did. Who acts: Present'y, ter, nip. 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 pragmatic
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 6

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Present'y he say ter hisse'f dat he bleedzd ter have a nip at dat butter, en den he lay his plans, he did.

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**Who acts:** Present'y, ter, nip · **What happens:** say, bleedz, have, lie, do, plan · **To what, where:** ter hisse'f dat, en den · **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 (Present'y, ter, nip), 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:pg2306:20:6
# text = Present'y he say ter hisse'f dat he bleedzd ter have a nip at dat butter, en den he lay his plans, he did.
1	Present'y	Present'y	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ter	ter	X	FW	_	6	compound	_	_
5	hisse'f	hisse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	bleedzd	bleedz	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	nip	nip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	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 | Present'y | ter hisse'f dat |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dat=Topic |
| 2 | **bleedz** | past | Present'y | ter hisse'f dat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | ter |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lie** | past | a nip at dat butter | en den |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plan=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | past | ter |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **plan** |  | ter |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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