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title: "'You'll hatter skuze me, Brer Blacksmif, kase I dun had 'speunce 'l… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'You'll hatter skuze me, Brer Blacksmif, kase I dun had 'speunce 'longer you. Who acts: You, head en, kase dun. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1, sentence 44

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"'You'll hatter skuze me, Brer Blacksmif, kase I dun had 'speunce 'longer you.

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**Who acts:** You, head en, kase dun · **What happens:** skuze, dun, have · **To what, where:** head en, speunce

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, head en, kase dun), 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:pg2306:35:44
# text = "'You'll hatter skuze me, Brer Blacksmif, kase I dun had 'speunce 'longer you.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	hatter	hatt	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	skuze	skuze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	Blacksmif	Blacksmif	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	kase	kase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	dun	dun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	speunce	speunce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skuze** *in a quote* | future | You | boy's head en *= en* |  |  |  | hatt *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dun** *in a quote* |  | boy's head en *= en* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | past | kase dun | speunce |  |  |  | long *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speunce=Patient |

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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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