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title: "'You er de man w'at tuck en fool me 'bout Brer Rabbit t'er day. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'You er de man w'at tuck en fool me 'bout Brer Rabbit t'er day. Who acts: You. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 21

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"'You er de man w'at tuck en fool me 'bout Brer Rabbit t'er day.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** er, fool · **To what, where:** de man, frog

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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:pg2306:27:21
# text = "'You er de man w'at tuck en fool me 'bout Brer Rabbit t'er day.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	er	er	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	tuck	tuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	fool	fool	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	bout	bout	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
16	t'er	t'er	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **er** *in a quote* | present | You | de man and w'at tuck en |  |  | day | bout Brer Rabbit | tree rules |
| 2 | **fool** *in a quote* | infinitive | You *not said here* | frog |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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