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title: Yer you bin gobblin' up my green truck, en now you tryin' ter tote o… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Yer you bin gobblin' up my green truck, en now you tryin' ter tote off my trap. Who acts: Yer, you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 22

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Yer you bin gobblin' up my green truck, en now you tryin' ter tote off my trap.

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**Who acts:** Yer, you · **What happens:** bin, tote off · **To what, where:** gobblin, trap

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yer, you), 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:pg2306:32:22
# text = Yer you bin gobblin' up my green truck, en now you tryin' ter tote off my trap.
1	Yer	yer	PRON	PRP	Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	gobblin	gobblin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	truck	truck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	tryin	tryin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
16	ter	ter	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	tote	tote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present | Yer | gobblin |  |  |  | up my green truck and en | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gobblin=Theme |
| 2 | **tote off** | infinitive | you | my trap |  |  | now |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trap=Theme |

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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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