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title: Twan't no 'Lemme a hoss,' ner 'Fetch me my buggy,' but dey des up'n… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Twan't no 'Lemme a hoss,' ner 'Fetch me my buggy,' but dey des up'n lit out en tote deyse'f. Who acts: Twa. 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 2

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Twan't no 'Lemme a hoss,' ner 'Fetch me my buggy,' but dey des up'n lit out en tote deyse'f.

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**Who acts:** Twa · **What happens:** fetch, lit out · **To what, where:** buggy, me, dey

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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 (Twa), 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:pg2306:33:2
# text = Twan't no 'Lemme a hoss,' ner 'Fetch me my buggy,' but dey des up'n lit out en tote deyse'f.
1	Twa	Twa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Lemme	Lemme	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hoss	hoss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	ner	ner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	buggy	buggy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	des	des	X	FW	_	19	flat:foreign	_	_
21	up'n	up'n	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	tote	tote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	deyse'f	deyse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fetch** | infinitive | Twa  no Lemme hoss | my buggy | me |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary buggy=Theme |
| 2 | **lit out** | participle · passive |  | dey |  |  |  | up'n *property* | tree rules |

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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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