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title: "You kin put yo' 'pennunce in ole Brer Rabbit," the old man replied,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "You kin put yo' 'pennunce in ole Brer Rabbit," the old man replied, with a chuckle. " Who acts: You. 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 every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 16

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"You kin put yo' 'pennunce in ole Brer Rabbit," the old man replied, with a chuckle. "

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** put, reply · **To what, where:** pennunce, old man · **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), 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:pg2306:33:16
# text = "You kin put yo' 'pennunce in ole Brer Rabbit," the old man replied, with a chuckle. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	kin	kin	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	pennunce	pennunce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
18	replied	reply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	chuckle	chuckle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** *in a quote* | present | You | yo's pennunce |  |  |  | in ole Brer Rabbit; kin *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pennunce=Theme in rabbit=Destination |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the old man *not said here* |  |  |  | with a chuckle | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with chuckle=Eventuality |

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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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