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title: Ef I don't disremember," he continued, "hit wuz Miss Molly Cottontai… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Ef I don't disremember," he continued, "hit wuz Miss Molly Cottontail, en I speck we better let it go at dat." Who acts: I, Ef, Cottontail. 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 th
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 37

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Ef I don't disremember," he continued, "hit wuz Miss Molly Cottontail, en I speck we better let it go at dat."

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**Who acts:** I, Ef, Cottontail · **What happens:** not disremember, continue, hit, speck, let, go · **To what, where:** Ef, Miss, en, Cottontail, dat

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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 (I, Ef, Cottontail), 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:pg2306:33:37
# text = Ef I don't disremember," he continued, "hit wuz Miss Molly Cottontail, en I speck we better let it go at dat."
1	Ef	Ef	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	disremember	disremember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	hit	hit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
13	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:desc	_	_
14	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	Molly	Molly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	Cottontail	cottontail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	speck	speck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **disremember** | present · do-support | I | Ef *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **continue** *in a quote* | past | Ef |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **hit** | infinitive | Ef *not said here* | Miss  wuz |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent miss=Patient cottontail=Result |
| 4 | **speck** | present | I | en |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive | I *not said here* | Cottontail |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | infinitive | Cottontail *not said here* |  |  | dat |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at dat=Location |

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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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