--- title: "'Gimme a good strong rope,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee, 'en lemme git… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'Gimme a good strong rope,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee, 'en lemme git in er puddle er water, en den let Brer B'ar see ef he kin pull me out,' sezee. Who acts: good strong rope, en den, lemme git, den. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin S --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/17/) [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/) / [XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/) / 17 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 17 "'Gimme a good strong rope,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee, 'en lemme git in er puddle er water, en den let Brer B'ar see ef he kin pull me out,' sezee. **Who acts:** good strong rope, en den, lemme git, den · **What happens:** say, let, see, kin, pull out · **To what, where:** Gimme, Brer, ef, one eye · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good strong rope, en den, lemme git, den), 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:pg2306:29:17 # text = "'Gimme a good strong rope,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee, 'en lemme git in er puddle er water, en den let Brer B'ar see ef he kin pull me out,' sezee. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Gimme Gimme PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 10 sez say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 Tarrypin Tarrypin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 lemme lemme NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 git git NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 er e ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 amod _ _ 22 puddle puddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 er e ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 amod _ _ 24 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 29 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 B'ar B'ar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 flat _ _ 31 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 32 ef ef NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 kin kin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 35 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 36 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 out out ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ _ 40 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | a good strong rope | Gimme | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | | 2 | **let** *in a quote* | past | en den | Brer | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brer=Theme | | 3 | **see** *in a quote* | present | lemme git in er puddle and er water | ef | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ef=Stimulus | | 4 | **kin** *in a quote* | past | den | ef *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **pull out** *in a quote* | infinitive | den *not said here* | one eye and en *= eye* | | | | sezee *obl* | tree rules | 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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/18/) - ↑ back to [XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/)