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title: "Den Miss Meadows en de gals, dey holler and laff fit ter kill deyse… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Den Miss Meadows en de gals, dey holler and laff fit ter kill deyse'f, en ole Brer Tarrypin, he raise up fum behime de pos' en sez, sezee: Who acts: Den Meadows en, ter, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, wi
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 48

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"Den Miss Meadows en de gals, dey holler and laff fit ter kill deyse'f, en ole Brer Tarrypin, he raise up fum behime de pos' en sez, sezee:

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**Who acts:** Den Meadows en, ter, en · **What happens:** fit, kill, raise up, say · **To what, where:** deyse'f, de pos · **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 (Den Meadows en, ter, en), 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:pg2306:21:48
# text = "Den Miss Meadows en de gals, dey holler and laff fit ter kill deyse'f, en ole Brer Tarrypin, he raise up fum behime de pos' en sez, sezee:
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Meadows	Meadow	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
7	gals	gal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	laff	laff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	fit	fit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	kill	kill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
16	deyse'f	deyse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	ole	ole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
21	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	fum	fum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	behime	behime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	pos	pos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
31	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fit** *in a quote* | present | Den Meadows en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **kill** *in a quote* | present | ter | deyse'f |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deyse'f=Theme |
| 3 | **raise up** *in a quote* | infinitive | en | de pos and sezee |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pos=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | en | de pos and sezee *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pos=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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