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title: "Now, den, ef dat's 'greed ter, I'm gwine on, en ef tain't 'greed te… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Now, den, ef dat's 'greed ter, I'm gwine on, en ef tain't 'greed ter, den I'm gwineter pick up my cane en look atter my own intrust. Who acts: ef dat, boy, den. 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 dep
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 17

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"Now, den, ef dat's 'greed ter, I'm gwine on, en ef tain't 'greed ter, den I'm gwineter pick up my cane en look atter my own intrust.

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**Who acts:** ef dat, boy, den · **What happens:** ter, be, gree, pick up, look, intrust · **To what, where:** gwine, gwineter, cane en

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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 dat, boy, den), 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:pg2306:28:17
# text = "Now, den, ef dat's 'greed ter, I'm gwine on, en ef tain't 'greed ter, den I'm gwineter pick up my cane en look atter my own intrust.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	greed	greed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
20	tai	tai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	greed	gree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
30	pick	pick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	cane	cane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
35	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
36	atter	att	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	xcomp	_	_
37	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	obj	_	_
39	intrust	intrust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ter** *in a quote* |  | ef dat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | boy | gwine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gree** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | boy | gwineter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pick up** *in a quote* | present | den and greed ter and gwine and en ef and den and gwineter | my cane en |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Topic |
| 6 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | den and greed ter and gwine and en ef and den and gwineter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | att *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **intrust** *in a quote* | infinitive | den and greed ter and gwine and en ef and den and gwineter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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