--- title: "I notices dat dem fokes w'at makes a great 'miration 'bout w'at dey… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "I notices dat dem fokes w'at makes a great 'miration 'bout w'at dey knows is des de fokes w'ich you can't put no 'pennunce in w'en de 'cashun come up. Who acts: man, dat, w'at dey, des. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/28/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bush…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/28/) / 9 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 9 "I notices dat dem fokes w'at makes a great 'miration 'bout w'at dey knows is des de fokes w'ich you can't put no 'pennunce in w'en de 'cashun come up. **Who acts:** man, dat, w'at dey, des, you · **What happens:** notice, make, know, w'ich, not put, come up · **To what, where:** great miration, pennunce, w'en de 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 (man, dat, w'at dey, des), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:28:9 # text = "I notices dat dem fokes w'at makes a great 'miration 'bout w'at dey knows is des de fokes w'ich you can't put no 'pennunce in w'en de 'cashun come up. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 notices notice VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 dat dat X GW _ 8 nsubj _ _ 5 dem dem X NN _ 4 goeswith _ _ 6 fokes foke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 compound _ _ 7 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 miration miration NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 13 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 bout bout NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 des des X FW Foreign=Yes 22 nsubj _ _ 20 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 19 flat:foreign _ _ 21 fokes foke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 compound _ _ 22 w'ich w'ich NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 xcomp _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 25 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl:relcl _ _ 27 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 29 det _ _ 28 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 pennunce pennunce NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 33 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 cashun cashun NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 35 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 36 up up ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **notice** *in a quote* | present | man | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **make** *in a quote* | present | dat | a great miration | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset miration=Product | | 3 | **know** *in a quote* | present | w'at dey | a great miration *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer miration=Stimulus | | 4 | **w'ich** *in a quote* | | des | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **put** *in a quote* | can | you | no pennunce | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pennunce=Goal | | 6 | **come up** *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* | | | w'en de and cashun | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in de=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/28/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/28/10/) - ↑ back to [XXV. 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