--- title: "'Ef you'll gimme time fer ter ketch my breff, gents en ladies, one… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'Ef you'll gimme time fer ter ketch my breff, gents en ladies, one en all, I speck I'll finger dat money myse'f,' sezee, en sho nuff, Brer Tarrypin tie de pu's 'roun' his neck en skaddle*1 off home." Who acts: gents, fus, Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/21/49/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At L…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/21/) / 49 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 49 "'Ef you'll gimme time fer ter ketch my breff, gents en ladies, one en all, I speck I'll finger dat money myse'f,' sezee, en sho nuff, Brer Tarrypin tie de pu's 'roun' his neck en skaddle\*1 off home." **Who acts:** gents, fus, Brer · **What happens:** lady, speck, myse'f, tie · **To what, where:** de pu · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (gents, fus, Brer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:21:49 # text = "'Ef you'll gimme time fer ter ketch my breff, gents en ladies, one en all, I speck I'll finger dat money myse'f,' sezee, en sho nuff, Brer Tarrypin tie de pu's 'roun' his neck en skaddle*1 off home." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Ef Ef PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 6 gimme gimme ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 8 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 ketch ketch NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 breff breff NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 gents gent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 20 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 speck speck VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 26 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 28 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 myse'f myse'f NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 32 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 35 sho sho X FW _ 36 compound _ _ 36 nuff nuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:desc _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 Tarrypin Tarrypin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 flat _ _ 40 tie tie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 41 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 42 compound _ _ 42 pu pu NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 's 's PART POS _ 42 case _ _ 44 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ _ 47 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 48 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 49 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 skaddle skaddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 * * PUNCT NFP _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 42 acl:relcl _ _ 53 off off ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lady** *in a quote* | | gents | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **speck** *in a quote* | present | fus | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **myse'f** *in a quote* | future | fus | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **tie** *in a quote* | present | Brer sho nuff | de pu | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pu=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/21/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/21/50/) - ↑ back to [XVIII. 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