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title: But, bless yo' soul, honey, Brer Fox ain't sa'nter fur, 'fo' Jack Sp… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: But, bless yo' soul, honey, Brer Fox ain't sa'nter fur, 'fo' Jack Sparrer flipp down on a 'simmon-bush by de side er de road, en holler out: Who acts: you. 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 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 47

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But, bless yo' soul, honey, Brer Fox ain't sa'nter fur, 'fo' Jack Sparrer flipp down on a 'simmon-bush by de side er de road, en holler out:

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** bless · **To what, where:** yo soul

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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 (you), 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:pg2306:22:47
# text = But, bless yo' soul, honey, Brer Fox ain't sa'nter fur, 'fo' Jack Sparrer flipp down on a 'simmon-bush by de side er de road, en holler out:
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bless	bless	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Vrnc|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	sa'nter	sa'nter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	22	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
20	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	Sparrer	Sparrer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	flipp	flipp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
23	down	down	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	simmon	simmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	de	de	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
39	out	out	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bless** | imperative | you *not said here* | yo soul and honey |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=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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