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title: "'I'll git in de maul,' sez Brer Fox, 'en you'll jump in de gall,' s… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'I'll git in de maul,' sez Brer Fox, 'en you'll jump in de gall,' sezee. Who acts: dey, git, you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 29

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"'I'll git in de maul,' sez Brer Fox, 'en you'll jump in de gall,' sezee.

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**Who acts:** dey, git, you · **What happens:** git, say, jump · **To what, where:** de maul, Brer Fox, en, de gall · **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 (dey, git, you), 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:pg2306:37:29
# text = "'I'll git in de maul,' sez Brer Fox, 'en you'll jump in de gall,' sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	maul	maul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
11	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	gall	gall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
25	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **git** *in a quote* | future | dey |  |  | de maul |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | git | Brer Fox |  |  |  | en *obl* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic |
| 3 | **jump** *in a quote* | future | you | en *not said here* |  | de gall and sezee |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent en=Theme in gall=Trajectory |

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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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