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title: Up en down dey had it, twel fus news you know Brer Tarrypin say he g… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Up en down dey had it, twel fus news you know Brer Tarrypin say he got a fifty-dollar bill in de chink er de chimbly at home, en dat bill done tole 'im dat he could beat Brer Rabbit in a fa'r race. Who acts: en, you, Brer, en dat bill. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel C
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 12

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Up en down dey had it, twel fus news you know Brer Tarrypin say he got a fifty-dollar bill in de chink er de chimbly at home, en dat bill done tole 'im dat he could beat Brer Rabbit in a fa'r race.

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**Who acts:** en, you, Brer, en dat bill · **What happens:** have, know, say, get, do, beat · **To what, where:** kin, twel fus news, dollar bill, de chink er, tole, Brer Rabbit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (en, you, Brer, en dat bill), 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:pg2306:21:12
# text = Up en down dey had it, twel fus news you know Brer Tarrypin say he got a fifty-dollar bill in de chink er de chimbly at home, en dat bill done tole 'im dat he could beat Brer Rabbit in a fa'r race.
1	Up	up	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	fus	fus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	chink	chink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	conj	_	_
28	chimbly	chimbly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
35	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
36	tole	tole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
37	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	im	im	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
43	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	fa'r	fa'r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | en down dey | kin |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | present | you | twel fus news *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **get** | past | Brer | a dollar bill |  | de chink er and en dat bill |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bill=Stimulus |
| 5 | **do** | participle | en dat bill *not said here* | tole |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tole=Eventuality |
| 6 | **beat** | could | Brer | Brer Rabbit |  |  |  | im dat; in a fa'r race | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent rabbit=Patient in race=Topic |

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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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