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title: Tribbalashun seem like she's a waitin' roun' de cornder fer ter ketc… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Tribbalashun seem like she's a waitin' roun' de cornder fer ter ketch one en all un us, honey." Who acts: Tribbalashun, 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 pragmatics of every c
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 65

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Tribbalashun seem like she's a waitin' roun' de cornder fer ter ketch one en all un us, honey."

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**Who acts:** Tribbalashun, roun · **What happens:** seem, be, en

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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 (Tribbalashun, 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:pg2306:20:65
# text = Tribbalashun seem like she's a waitin' roun' de cornder fer ter ketch one en all un us, honey."
1	Tribbalashun	Tribbalashun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	waitin	waitin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	compound	_	_
12	cornder	cornder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	appos	_	_
19	un	un	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	reparandum	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | Tribbalashun |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Tribbalashun |  |  |  |  | like a waitin | tree rules |
| 3 | **en** |  | 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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