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title: I'll show Miss Meadows en de gals dat I'm de boss er Brer Fox,' sezee. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I'll show Miss Meadows en de gals dat I'm de boss er Brer Fox,' sezee. Who acts: I, Miss Meadows. 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 31

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I'll show Miss Meadows en de gals dat I'm de boss er Brer Fox,' sezee.

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**Who acts:** I, Miss Meadows · **What happens:** show, dat, be · **To what, where:** de boss · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, Miss Meadows), 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:pg2306:22:31
# text = I'll show Miss Meadows en de gals dat I'm de boss er Brer Fox,' sezee.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Meadows	Meadow	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
6	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	gals	gal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	dat	dat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	_
14	er	er	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	13	appos	_	_
15	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **dat** | present | Miss Meadows |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | I | de boss |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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