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title: You 'member w'at 'come er de bird w'at went tattlin' 'roun' 'bout Br… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: You 'member w'at 'come er de bird w'at went tattlin' 'roun' 'bout Brer Rabbit?" Who acts: de bird w'at. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 23

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You 'member w'at 'come er de bird w'at went tattlin' 'roun' 'bout Brer Rabbit?"

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**Who acts:** de bird w'at · **What happens:** come, go · **To what, where:** tattlin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (de bird w'at), 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:pg2306:22:23
# text = You 'member w'at 'come er de bird w'at went tattlin' 'roun' 'bout Brer Rabbit?"
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
7	er	er	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	compound	_	_
9	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	tattlin	tattlin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	bout	bout	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | de bird w'at | tattlin |  |  |  | bout Brer Rabbit | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tattlin=Theme |

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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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