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title: "'Yer! you young Rabs dar, sail 'roun' yer en broke me a piece er da… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Yer! you young Rabs dar, sail 'roun' yer en broke me a piece er dat sweetnin'-tree,' sezee, en den he koff. Who acts: Yer, young Rabs dar, er dat sweetnin, sweetnin. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, with its dep
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 16

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"'Yer! you young Rabs dar, sail 'roun' yer en broke me a piece er dat sweetnin'-tree,' sezee, en den he koff.

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**Who acts:** Yer, young Rabs dar, er dat sweetnin, sweetnin · **What happens:** dar, break, tree, koff · **To what, where:** Uncle Remus

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yer, young Rabs dar, er dat sweetnin, sweetnin), 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:pg2306:25:16
# text = "'Yer! you young Rabs dar, sail 'roun' yer en broke me a piece er dat sweetnin'-tree,' sezee, en den he koff.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Yer	yer	PRON	PRP	Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Rabs	Rabs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	piece	piece	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	sweetnin	sweetnin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	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	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	koff	koff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dar** *in a quote* |  | Yer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **break** *in a quote* | past | young Rabs dar and sail | Uncle Remus *= remus* |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient |
| 3 | **tree** *in a quote* |  | a er dat sweetnin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **koff** *in a quote* |  | sweetnin |  |  |  |  |  | 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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