--- title: Ef you bleedzd ter know mo' dan w'at I duz, den you'll hatter hunt u… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Ef you bleedzd ter know mo' dan w'at I duz, den you'll hatter hunt up some er deze yer niggers w'at's sprung up sence I commence fer ter shed my ha'r." Who acts: you, Ef ter, I, mo dan w'at. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/8/) [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/) / 8 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 8 Ef you bleedzd ter know mo' dan w'at I duz, den you'll hatter hunt up some er deze yer niggers w'at's sprung up sence I commence fer ter shed my ha'r." **Who acts:** you, Ef ter, I, mo dan w'at, fer ter · **What happens:** bleedz, know, duz, hunt up, spring up, commence · **To what, where:** Ef, mo dan w'at, er, w'at sprung sence, ha'r · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, Ef ter, I, mo dan w'at), 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:pg2306:32:8 # text = Ef you bleedzd ter know mo' dan w'at I duz, den you'll hatter hunt up some er deze yer niggers w'at's sprung up sence I commence fer ter shed my ha'r." 1 Ef Ef PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 bleedzd bleedz VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 ter ter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 mo mo NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 dan dan X FW _ 9 compound _ _ 9 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 duz duz VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 hatter hatter NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 nsubj _ _ 20 er er X GW _ 17 obj _ _ 21 deze deze X NN _ 20 goeswith _ _ 22 yer yer PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 niggers nigger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 compound _ _ 24 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 sprung spring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 amod _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 sence sence NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 flat _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 commence commence VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 amod _ _ 32 ter ter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 shed shed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 34 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 ha'r ha'r NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bleedz** | past | you | Ef *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **know** | present | Ef ter | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **duz** | present | I | mo dan w'at and den *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **hunt up** | future | mo dan w'at and den | er | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent er=Theme | | 5 | **spring up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **commence** | present | I | w'at sprung sence *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **shed** | past | fer ter | my ha'r | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ha'r=Source | 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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/9/) - ↑ back to [XXIX. 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