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title: En, fuddermo', I know dat 'tain't proned inter no dogs fer ter ketch… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: En, fuddermo', I know dat 'tain't proned inter no dogs fer ter ketch de rabbit w'at use in a berryin'-groun'. Who acts: En, dogs. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 33

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En, fuddermo', I know dat 'tain't proned inter no dogs fer ter ketch de rabbit w'at use in a berryin'-groun'.

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**Who acts:** En, dogs · **What happens:** know, not prone, use · **To what, where:** tai, berryin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (En, dogs), 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:pg2306:34:33
# text = En, fuddermo', I know dat 'tain't proned inter no dogs fer ter ketch de rabbit w'at use in a berryin'-groun'.
1	En	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	fuddermo	fuddermo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	',	',	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	tai	tai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	proned	prone	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	_
12	inter	int	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	xcomp	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
15	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
16	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
18	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	berryin	berryin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | En and fuddermo |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **prone** | participle · passive |  | tai |  |  |  | dat *obl:unmarked*; int *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | infinitive | no dogs |  |  | a berryin |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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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