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title: You ain't de man w'at stick yo' head up out'n de water en tell me Br… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: You ain't de man w'at stick yo' head up out'n de water en tell me Brer Rabbit done gone on by. Who acts: out'n water en. 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 clau
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 28

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You ain't de man w'at stick yo' head up out'n de water en tell me Brer Rabbit done gone on by.

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**Who acts:** out'n water en · **What happens:** tell, do, go on · **To what, where:** Brer Rabbit, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (out'n water 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:pg2306:27:28
# text = You ain't de man w'at stick yo' head up out'n de water en tell me Brer Rabbit done gone on by.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
12	out'n	out'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat:foreign	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	xcomp	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | out'n water en | Brer Rabbit | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient rabbit=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | participle |  | Brer Rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go on** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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