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title: I kin tell you dis, dat dem fishes ain't stay whar Brer Wolf put um… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I kin tell you dis, dat dem fishes ain't stay whar Brer Wolf put um at, en w'en Brer Wolf come back dey wuz gone. Who acts: I, dis fishes, whar Brer Wolf, en w'en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, with its dependency t
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 34

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I kin tell you dis, dat dem fishes ain't stay whar Brer Wolf put um at, en w'en Brer Wolf come back dey wuz gone.

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**Who acts:** I, dis fishes, whar Brer Wolf, en w'en · **What happens:** tell, not stay, put at, come back, go · **To what, where:** you, um, dey wuz · **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 (I, dis fishes, whar Brer Wolf, en w'en), 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:pg2306:23:34
# text = I kin tell you dis, dat dem fishes ain't stay whar Brer Wolf put um at, en w'en Brer Wolf come back dey wuz gone.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	kin	kin	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
13	whar	whar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
17	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
23	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* |  | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **stay** | present | dis fishes |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **put at** | past | whar Brer Wolf | um |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent um=Goal |
| 4 | **come back** | present | en w'en | dey wuz |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | participle |  | dey wuz *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: 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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