--- title: "'I thank you fer ter tu'n me loose, Brer Rabbit, en I'll be 'blije,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'I thank you fer ter tu'n me loose, Brer Rabbit, en I'll be 'blije,' sezee, ''caze you done tie me up so tight dat it make my head swim, en I don't speck I'd las' fer ter git ter Miss Meadows's,' sezee. Who acts: en, I, sezee, my. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chand --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/40/) [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/) / [XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/) / 40 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 40 "'I thank you fer ter tu'n me loose, Brer Rabbit, en I'll be 'blije,' sezee, ''caze you done tie me up so tight dat it make my head swim, en I don't speck I'd las' fer ter git ter Miss Meadows's,' sezee. **Who acts:** en, I, sezee, my · **What happens:** thank, be, caze, do, tie up, make · **To what, where:** fer ter, you, blije, me, sezee, en 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 (en, I, sezee, my), 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:pg2306:32:40 # text = "'I thank you fer ter tu'n me loose, Brer Rabbit, en I'll be 'blije,' sezee, ''caze you done tie me up so tight dat it make my head swim, en I don't speck I'd las' fer ter git ter Miss Meadows's,' sezee. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 amod _ _ 7 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 tu'n tu'n CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 conj _ _ 10 loose loose ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 cop _ _ 19 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 blije blije NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 '' '' PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 caze caze VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 xcomp _ _ 29 tie tie VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 30 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 tight tight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 parataxis _ _ 34 dat dat SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 ccomp _ _ 37 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 swim swim NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 42 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 43 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 44 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 45 speck speck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 acl:relcl _ _ 46 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 48 las la NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ' 's PART POS _ 48 case _ _ 50 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 compound _ _ 51 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 compound _ _ 52 git git NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 parataxis _ _ 53 ter ter ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 55 compound _ _ 55 Meadows Meadows PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 56 's 's PART POS _ 55 case _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 58 ' 's PART POS _ 39 case _ _ 59 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 60 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | en | fer ter | you | | | Brer Rabbit *obl*; loose *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | en | blije and sezee | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **caze** | infinitive | I *not said here* | you | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **do** | participle | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tie up** | infinitive | I *not said here* | me | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | | 6 | **make** | infinitive | sezee | my head swim and en's sezee | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material sezee=Product | | 7 | **not** **speck** | present · do-support | I | en *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **git** | would | I | | | | | ter Miss Meadows | tree rules | | 9 | **swim** | | my | | | | | | nom swim «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/41/) - ↑ back to [XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/)