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title: "'Take yo' toofies en gnyaw it, Take yo' toofies en saw it, Saw it e… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Take yo' toofies en gnyaw it, Take yo' toofies en saw it, Saw it en yoke it, En den you kin broke it.' Who acts: you, en, yo, En den. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 24

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"'Take yo' toofies en gnyaw it, Take yo' toofies en saw it, Saw it en yoke it, En den you kin broke it.'

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**Who acts:** you, en, yo, En den · **What happens:** take, gnyaw, see, kin, break · **To what, where:** yo, dish, En den

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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 (you, en, yo, En den), 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:pg2306:25:24
# text = "'Take yo' toofies en gnyaw it, Take yo' toofies en saw it, Saw it en yoke it, En den you kin broke it.'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
6	toofies	toofy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gnyaw	gnyaw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
14	toofies	toofy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	compound	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	obj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	en	en	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	yoke	yoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	kin	kin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	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* | imperative | you *not said here* | yo |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument yo=Theme toofy=Destination |
| 2 | **gnyaw** *in a quote* | past | en | yo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | past | yo and toofies en | dish |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 5 | **see** *in a quote* | past | yo and toofies en *not said here* | dish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **kin** *in a quote* | present | you | En den *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **break** *in a quote* | past | En den | dish |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient |

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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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