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title: "'Git on my tail, little Jack Sparrer,' sez Brer Fox, sezee, 'kaze I… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Git on my tail, little Jack Sparrer,' sez Brer Fox, sezee, 'kaze I'm de'f in one year, en I can't hear out'n de udder. Who acts: Git, kaze, little boy. 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 th
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 63

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"'Git on my tail, little Jack Sparrer,' sez Brer Fox, sezee, 'kaze I'm de'f in one year, en I can't hear out'n de udder.

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**Who acts:** Git, kaze, little boy · **What happens:** say, be, not hear · **To what, where:** Brer Fox, de'f, out'n udder · **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 (Git, kaze, little boy), 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:pg2306:22:63
# text = "'Git on my tail, little Jack Sparrer,' sez Brer Fox, sezee, 'kaze I'm de'f in one year, en I can't hear out'n de udder.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	Sparrer	Sparrer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
13	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	de'f	de'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	out'n	out'n	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	35	amod	_	_
34	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	flat	_	_
35	udder	udder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	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 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Git on my tail | Brer Fox and sezee |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | kaze | de'f and en |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **hear** *in a quote* | can | the little boy *= boy* | out'n udder |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer udder=Stimulus |

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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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