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title: "Ef I ain't fergit it off'n my mine, I say dat ole Brer Rabbit wuz g… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Ef I ain't fergit it off'n my mine, I say dat ole Brer Rabbit wuz gwine down de big road shakin' his long, bushy tail. Who acts: Ef, little boy. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, with its dependency tree and
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 13

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"Ef I ain't fergit it off'n my mine, I say dat ole Brer Rabbit wuz gwine down de big road shakin' his long, bushy tail.

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**Who acts:** Ef, little boy · **What happens:** not fergit, say · **To what, where:** tail, ole · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ef, little boy), 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:pg2306:28:13
# text = "Ef I ain't fergit it off'n my mine, I say dat ole Brer Rabbit wuz gwine down de big road shakin' his long, bushy tail.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ef	Ef	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	ai	ai	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	fergit	fergit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	off'n	off'n	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ole	ole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	list	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
21	de	de	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	shakin	shakin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
27	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	bushy	bushy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fergit** *in a quote* |  | Ef | tail |  |  |  | off'n the little boy *= boy* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | the little boy *= boy* | that ole |  |  |  | down *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent ole=Theme tail=Manner |

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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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