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title: Bless grashus! ef chilluns ain't gittin' so dey knows mo'n ole fokes… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Bless grashus! ef chilluns ain't gittin' so dey knows mo'n ole fokes, en dey'll 'spute longer you en 'spute longer you, ceppin' der ma call um, w'ich I speck 'twon't be long 'fo' she will, en den Ill set yere by de chimbly-cornder en git some peace er mine. Who acts: you, dey, ole fokes, I. A senten
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 10

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Bless grashus! ef chilluns ain't gittin' so dey knows mo'n ole fokes, en dey'll 'spute longer you en 'spute longer you, ceppin' der ma call um, w'ich I speck 'twon't be long 'fo' she will, en den Ill set yere by de chimbly-cornder en git some peace er mine.

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**Who acts:** you, dey, ole fokes, I, two, en spute · **What happens:** bless, know, spute, speck, not be, set · **To what, where:** grashus, en den

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dey, ole fokes, I), 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:pg2306:23:10
# text = Bless grashus! ef chilluns ain't gittin' so dey knows mo'n ole fokes, en dey'll 'spute longer you en 'spute longer you, ceppin' der ma call um, w'ich I speck 'twon't be long 'fo' she will, en den Ill set yere by de chimbly-cornder en git some peace er mine.
1	Bless	bless	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	grashus	grashus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
4	ef	ef	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	chilluns	chillun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	gittin	gittin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	mo'n	mo'n	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	fokes	foke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	spute	spute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
22	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	spute	spute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
27	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	ceppin	ceppin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
32	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	amod	_	_
33	ma	ma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	w'ich	w'ich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	speck	speck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	parataxis	_	_
40	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	cop	_	_
44	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	_
45	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	49	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	_
48	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
53	Ill	ill	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl	_	_
55	yere	yere	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
56	by	by	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
57	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
58	chimbly	chimbly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	cornder	cornder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	_
61	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	compound	_	_
62	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
63	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	64	det	_	_
64	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	nsubj	_	_
65	er	er	ADV	RB	_	66	advmod	_	_
66	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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* | grashus |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grashus=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | present | dey |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **spute** | future | ole fokes |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **spute** |  | you |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **speck** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **is** | infinitive | two |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **set** | past | en spute and ceppin *not said here* | en den |  |  |  | by de en git; ill, yere *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by git=Destination |

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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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