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title: Uncle Remus asked finally, "kaze ef you is, I'm gwine out yere en bu… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Uncle Remus asked finally, "kaze ef you is, I'm gwine out yere en butt my head 'gin de do' jam'." Who acts: Uncle. 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 22

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Uncle Remus asked finally, "kaze ef you is, I'm gwine out yere en butt my head 'gin de do' jam'."

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**Who acts:** Uncle · **What happens:** ask, be, gwine out, jam · **To what, where:** kaze ef, yere en butt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Uncle), 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:pg2306:23:22
# text = Uncle Remus asked finally, "kaze ef you is, I'm gwine out yere en butt my head 'gin de do' jam'."
1	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	goeswith	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	gwine	gwine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	yere	yere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	butt	butt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	'	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	gin	gin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	flat:foreign	_	_
24	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
26	jam	jam	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Uncle |  |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | kaze ef |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gwine out** *in a quote* | present | Uncle | yere en butt |  |  |  | head gin *obl* | tree rules |
| 4 | **jam** *in a quote* | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=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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