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title: "Sho' 'nuff w'en de goobers 'gun ter ripen up, eve'y time Brer Fox g… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Sho' 'nuff w'en de goobers 'gun ter ripen up, eve'y time Brer Fox go down ter his patch, he fine whar somebody bin grabblin' 'mongst de vines, en he git mighty mad. Who acts: gun ter, Fox. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 8

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"Sho' 'nuff w'en de goobers 'gun ter ripen up, eve'y time Brer Fox go down ter his patch, he fine whar somebody bin grabblin' 'mongst de vines, en he git mighty mad.

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**Who acts:** gun ter, Fox · **What happens:** ripen up, go down, grabblin · **To what, where:** Sho nuff

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gun ter, Fox), 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:pg2306:26:8
# text = "Sho' 'nuff w'en de goobers 'gun ter ripen up, eve'y time Brer Fox go down ter his patch, he fine whar somebody bin grabblin' 'mongst de vines, en he git mighty mad.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sho	sho	NOUN	NN	_	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	nuff	nuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
6	w'en	w'en	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	dep	_	_
7	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	goobers	goober	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	'	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	ripen	ripen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	eve'y	eve'y	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
26	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
27	whar	whar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	29	compound	_	_
29	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	grabblin	grabblin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	mongst	mongst	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	vines	vine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
40	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ripen up** *in a quote* | present | de goobers's gun ter | Sho nuff |  |  | time |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **go down** *in a quote* | infinitive | de goobers's gun ter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ter Fox's patch; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **grabblin** *in a quote* |  | Fox |  |  |  |  |  | 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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