--- title: "I 'clar' to goodness," he said, reaching out and taking the little… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "I 'clar' to goodness," he said, reaching out and taking the little boy tenderly by the hand, "ef you ain't de ve'y spit en image er ole Miss w'en I brung 'er de las' news er de war. Who acts: man, de, news. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. How Mr. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/) / 18 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 18 "I 'clar' to goodness," he said, reaching out and taking the little boy tenderly by the hand, "ef you ain't de ve'y spit en image er ole Miss w'en I brung 'er de las' news er de war. **Who acts:** man, de, news · **What happens:** clar, say, reach out, take, not image, brung · **To what, where:** ef, little boy, er · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (man, de, news), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:23:18 # text = "I 'clar' to goodness," he said, reaching out and taking the little boy tenderly by the hand, "ef you ain't de ve'y spit en image er ole Miss w'en I brung 'er de las' news er de war. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 clar clar NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 goodness goodness NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 reaching reach VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 14 out out ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 tenderly tenderly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ef ef NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 ai be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 30 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 34 nsubj _ _ 31 ve'y ve'y ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 32 spit spit NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 image image NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 ccomp _ _ 35 er e ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 36 advmod _ _ 36 ole ole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 37 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 brung brung VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 41 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 er er X FW Foreign=Yes 40 obj _ _ 43 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 42 flat:foreign _ _ 44 las la NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ' 's PART POS _ 44 case _ _ 46 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 47 er er X FW _ 49 compound _ _ 48 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 47 flat:foreign _ _ 49 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **clar** *in a quote* | | man | | | | | to goodness | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **reach out** | gerund | man *not said here* | ef | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **take** | gerund | man *not said here* | | the little boy | | | by the hand; tenderly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument boy=Destination | | 5 | **not** **image** *in a quote* | | de | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **brung** *in a quote* | past | man | er and er war | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **war** *in a quote* | | las's news | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/19/) - ↑ back to [XX. 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