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title: Hit's des like skeerin' up a ghos' w'at you ain't fear'd un." — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hit's des like skeerin' up a ghos' w'at you ain't fear'd un." Who acts: you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 19

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Hit's des like skeerin' up a ghos' w'at you ain't fear'd un."

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not fear · **To what, where:** un

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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), 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:pg2306:23:19
# text = Hit's des like skeerin' up a ghos' w'at you ain't fear'd un."
1	Hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	skeerin	skeerin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ghos	gho	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	ai	ai	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'd	'd	PART	POS	_	15	obj	_	_
17	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fear** |  | you | un |  |  |  |  | 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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