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title: Ill scratch en you kin grabble, en 'tween de two un us we'll make sh… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Ill scratch en you kin grabble, en 'tween de two un us we'll make short wuk er dat gol'-mine,' sezee. Who acts: you, we. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 18

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Ill scratch en you kin grabble, en 'tween de two un us we'll make short wuk er dat gol'-mine,' sezee.

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** scratch, grabble, make · **To what, where:** en, short gol mine

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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:pg2306:24:18
# text = Ill scratch en you kin grabble, en 'tween de two un us we'll make short wuk er dat gol'-mine,' sezee.
1	Ill	ill	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	scratch	scratch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	kin	kin	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	grabble	grabble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	tween	tween	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat:foreign	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:unmarked	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
18	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
19	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	gol	gol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	mine	mine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
28	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scratch** | imperative | you *not said here* | en and en  tween  two un |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme |
| 2 | **grabble** | present | you | en and en  tween  two un *not said here* |  |  |  | kin *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | future | we | short gol mine and sezee |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mine=Product |

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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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