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title: "Now den, honey, you take dis yer w'ip," continued the old man, twin… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Now den, honey, you take dis yer w'ip," continued the old man, twining the leather thong around the little boy's neck, "en scamper up ter de big 'ouse en tell Miss Sally fer ter gin you some un it de nex' time she fine yo' tracks in de sugar-bar'l." Who acts: you, ouse en, un, nex time. A sentence 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 60

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"Now den, honey, you take dis yer w'ip," continued the old man, twining the leather thong around the little boy's neck, "en scamper up ter de big 'ouse en tell Miss Sally fer ter gin you some un it de nex' time she fine yo' tracks in de sugar-bar'l."

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**Who acts:** you, ouse en, un, nex time · **What happens:** take, continue, twine, tell, nex, yo · **To what, where:** den, old man, leather thong, neck, you · **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 (you, ouse en, un, nex time), 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:pg2306:23:60
# text = "Now den, honey, you take dis yer w'ip," continued the old man, twining the leather thong around the little boy's neck, "en scamper up ter de big 'ouse en tell Miss Sally fer ter gin you some un it de nex' time she fine yo' tracks in de sugar-bar'l."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	yer	y	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	w'ip	w'ip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
14	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	twining	twine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	thong	thong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	around	around	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	scamper	scamper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	32	conj	_	_
35	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	34	flat:foreign	_	_
36	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
37	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	ouse	ouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	en	en	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
40	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
41	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
42	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	flat	_	_
43	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	gin	gin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod:desc	_	_
46	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	40	iobj	_	_
47	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	48	det	_	_
48	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	51	compound	_	_
51	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	51	punct	_	_
53	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
54	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
55	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	56	punct	_	_
58	tracks	track	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	conj	_	_
59	in	in	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
60	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
61	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	61	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	bar'l	bar'l	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *in a quote* | present | you | den and honey |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent dis=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **continue** | past |  | the old man |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 3 | **twine** | gerund |  | the leather thong |  | the little boy's neck |  | en scamper *obl* | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thong=Theme around neck=Destination |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | ouse en |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 5 | **nex** *in a quote* |  | some un |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **yo** *in a quote* |  | nex time |  |  |  |  |  | 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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