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title: "'Yer I come a bulgin',' sez de Tarrypin, sezee. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Yer I come a bulgin',' sez de Tarrypin, sezee. Who acts: Yer, '. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 35

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"'Yer I come a bulgin',' sez de Tarrypin, sezee.

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**Who acts:** Yer, ' · **What happens:** come, say · **To what, where:** bulgin · **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 (Yer, '), 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:pg2306:21:35
# text = "'Yer I come a bulgin',' sez de Tarrypin, sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Yer	yer	PRON	PRP	Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bulgin	bulgin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	',	',	PART	POS	_	7	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	de	de	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present | Yer | a bulgin |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bulgin=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | ' | a bulgin *not said here* |  |  |  | de Tarrypin and sezee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bulgin=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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