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title: Take dish yer sifter, en run down't de spring en fetch me some fresh… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Take dish yer sifter, en run down't de spring en fetch me some fresh water.' Who acts: you, sifter, de spring en. 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 of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 27

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Take dish yer sifter, en run down't de spring en fetch me some fresh water.'

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**Who acts:** you, sifter, de spring en · **What happens:** take, run, not fetch · **To what, where:** dish, fresh water, me

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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, sifter, de spring 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:pg2306:25:27
# text = Take dish yer sifter, en run down't de spring en fetch me some fresh water.'
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	sifter	sifter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	dow	dow	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
10	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
16	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | dish |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | present | yer's sifter and en |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **fetch** | infinitive | de spring en | some fresh water | me |  |  | dow *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary water=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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