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title: "'Der's a man down yander by Miss Meadows's w'at got heap er fine ca… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Der's a man down yander by Miss Meadows's w'at got heap er fine cattle, en he gotter cow name Bookay,' sezee, 'en you des go en say Bookay, en she'll open her mouf, en you kin jump in en git des as much meat ez you kin tote,' sez Brer Fox, sezee. Who acts: Der, man, you, mouf. A sentence of «Uncle
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 18

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"'Der's a man down yander by Miss Meadows's w'at got heap er fine cattle, en he gotter cow name Bookay,' sezee, 'en you des go en say Bookay, en she'll open her mouf, en you kin jump in en git des as much meat ez you kin tote,' sez Brer Fox, sezee.

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**Who acts:** Der, man, you, mouf · **What happens:** be, get, say, open, jump, kin · **To what, where:** man, heap, Bookay, mouf, en, en git des · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Der, man, you, mouf), 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:pg2306:37:18
# text = "'Der's a man down yander by Miss Meadows's w'at got heap er fine cattle, en he gotter cow name Bookay,' sezee, 'en you des go en say Bookay, en she'll open her mouf, en you kin jump in en git des as much meat ez you kin tote,' sez Brer Fox, sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Der	Der	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	yander	yander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Meadows	Meadows	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
14	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	er	er	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	gotter	gotter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:desc	_	_
25	Bookay	Bookay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
28	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
33	des	des	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	nmod:unmarked	_	_
34	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	en	en	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl:relcl	_	_
37	Bookay	Bookay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	acl:relcl	_	_
43	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	mouf	mouf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	_
47	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	kin	kin	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	acl:relcl	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
52	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
54	as	as	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
57	ez	ez	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
58	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
59	kin	kin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	advcl	_	_
60	tote	tote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	63	punct	_	_
63	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
64	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	65	compound	_	_
65	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
67	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Der | a man and yander |  |  |  | by Miss Meadows's w'at | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | past | a man and yander | heap |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent heap=Beneficiary cattle=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | you | Bookay |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bookay=Topic |
| 4 | **open** *in a quote* | future | Der | Der's mouf and en |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouf=Theme |
| 5 | **jump** *in a quote* |  | you | en *not said here* |  | en git des |  | as much meat | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent en=Theme in des=Trajectory |
| 6 | **kin** *in a quote* | present | you | tote |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Der's mouf and en *not said here* | Brer Fox and sezee |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic |

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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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