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title: "'Make a bow ter de Buzzard en den ter de Crow, Takes a limber-toe g… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Make a bow ter de Buzzard en den ter de Crow, Takes a limber-toe gemmun fer ter jump Jim Crow,' Who acts: you, fer ter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 11

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"'Make a bow ter de Buzzard en den ter de Crow, Takes a limber-toe gemmun fer ter jump Jim Crow,'

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**Who acts:** you, fer ter · **What happens:** make, take, jump · **To what, where:** bow ter, Jim Crow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fer ter), 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:pg2306:33:11
# text = "'Make a bow ter de Buzzard en den ter de Crow, Takes a limber-toe gemmun fer ter jump Jim Crow,'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	de	de	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	compound	_	_
13	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
17	limber	limber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	toe	toe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	gemmun	gemmun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
24	Jim	Jim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | a bow ter |  |  |  | de en den ter and de Crow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ter=Product |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 3 | **jump** *in a quote* | infinitive | a fer ter | Jim Crow |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=Agent |

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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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