--- title: "'Now den, ladies en gents,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee, 'you all go w… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'Now den, ladies en gents,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee, 'you all go wid Brer B'ar up dar in de woods en I'll stay yer, en w'en you year me holler, den's de time fer Brer B'ar fer ter see ef he kin haul in de slack er de rope. Who acts: en gents, you, B'ar dar en, W'en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/24/) [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/) / 24 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 24 "'Now den, ladies en gents,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee, 'you all go wid Brer B'ar up dar in de woods en I'll stay yer, en w'en you year me holler, den's de time fer Brer B'ar fer ter see ef he kin haul in de slack er de rope. **Who acts:** en gents, you, B'ar dar en, W'en · **What happens:** say, go, stay, holler, see, haul · **To what, where:** Brer, yer, ef, de de rope · **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 (en gents, you, B'ar dar en, W'en), 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:pg2306:29:24 # text = "'Now den, ladies en gents,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee, 'you all go wid Brer B'ar up dar in de woods en I'll stay yer, en w'en you year me holler, den's de time fer Brer B'ar fer ter see ef he kin haul in de slack er de rope. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 4 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 gents gent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 11 sez say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 Tarrypin Tarrypin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 20 advmod _ _ 20 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 21 wid wid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 B'ar B'ar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ _ 33 yer yer PRON PRP Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 39 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 goeswith _ _ 40 holler holler NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 42 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 43 's 's PART POS _ 42 case _ _ 44 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 45 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 47 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 appos _ _ 48 B'ar B'ar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 flat _ _ 49 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 appos _ _ 51 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 52 ef ef NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obj _ _ 53 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 54 kin kin AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 55 aux _ _ 55 haul haul VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 52 acl:relcl _ _ 56 in in ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 57 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 amod _ _ 58 slack slack NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 compound _ _ 59 er er NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 compound _ _ 60 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 compound _ _ 61 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 62 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | en gents | Brer | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | | 2 | **go** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **stay** *in a quote* | future | B'ar dar en | yer | | | | en w'en *obl* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme yer=Location | | 4 | **holler** *speech: other* *in a quote* | | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | B'ar dar en *not said here* | ef | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ef=Stimulus | | 6 | **haul** *in a quote* | | W'en | ef *not said here* | | de de rope | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ef=Theme | 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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/25/) - ↑ back to [XXVI. 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