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title: "'Ef you please, ma'am, Miss Fox, Tobe he kin turn de handle w'iles… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Ef you please, ma'am, Miss Fox, Tobe he kin turn de handle w'iles you goes atter some water fer ter wet de grinestone,' sezee. Who acts: Ef. 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 o
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 56

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"'Ef you please, ma'am, Miss Fox, Tobe he kin turn de handle w'iles you goes atter some water fer ter wet de grinestone,' sezee.

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**Who acts:** Ef · **What happens:** kin, turn, handle, go · **To what, where:** de, w'iles · **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 (Ef), 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:pg2306:37:56
# text = "'Ef you please, ma'am, Miss Fox, Tobe he kin turn de handle w'iles you goes atter some water fer ter wet de grinestone,' sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Ef	Ef	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	appos	_	_
5	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	ma'am	ma'am	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Tobe	Tobe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	kin	kin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
15	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	obl	_	_
17	handle	handle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	w'iles	w'ile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	atter	att	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	xcomp	_	_
25	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	28	compound	_	_
28	grinestone	grinestone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
31	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kin** *in a quote* | past | Ef and Tobe |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** *in a quote* | infinitive | Ef and Tobe *not said here* | de |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **handle** *in a quote* | infinitive | Ef and Tobe *not said here* | w'iles |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent w'ile=Theme |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | att, f *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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