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title: "'No,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee, 'en needer is you got de strenk,' s… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'No,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee, 'en needer is you got de strenk,' sezee, en den Brer Tarrypin, he rock en rock long, en watch de 'lasses a bilin' en a blubberin'. Who acts: en needer, den. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His S
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 19

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"'No,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee, 'en needer is you got de strenk,' sezee, en den Brer Tarrypin, he rock en rock long, en watch de 'lasses a bilin' en a blubberin'.

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**Who acts:** en needer, den · **What happens:** say, be, rock · **To what, where:** Brer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (en needer, 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:pg2306:29:19
# text = "'No,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee, 'en needer is you got de strenk,' sezee, en den Brer Tarrypin, he rock en rock long, en watch de 'lasses a bilin' en a blubberin'.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
6	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	needer	needer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	compound	_	_
19	strenk	strenk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:desc	_	_
26	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
27	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
31	en	en	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	32	compound	_	_
32	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	lasses	lass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	bilin	bilin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	'	's	PART	POS	_	41	case	_	_
43	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	blubberin	blubberin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present |  | Brer |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | en needer |  |  |  |  | get *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **rock** *in a quote* |  | den |  |  |  |  |  | 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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