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title: Some tells one tale en some tells nudder; some say dat fum dat time… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Some tells one tale en some tells nudder; some say dat fum dat time forrerd de Rabbits en de Foxes make fren's en stay so; some say dey kep on quollin'. Who acts: Some, de Foxes, dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, with
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 62

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Some tells one tale en some tells nudder; some say dat fum dat time forrerd de Rabbits en de Foxes make fren's en stay so; some say dey kep on quollin'.

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**Who acts:** Some, de Foxes, dey · **What happens:** tell, say, make, stay, kep · **To what, where:** one tale en, nudder, en, quollin · **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 (Some, de Foxes, dey), 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:pg2306:37:62
# text = Some tells one tale en some tells nudder; some say dat fum dat time forrerd de Rabbits en de Foxes make fren's en stay so; some say dey kep on quollin'.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	nudder	nudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	nsubj	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	fum	fum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
14	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	forrerd	forrerd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
17	de	de	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
23	fren	fren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	nsubj	_	_
30	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	kep	kep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	quollin	quollin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Some | one tale en |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent en=Recipient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | some | nudder |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nudder=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **make** | present | de Foxes | fren's en |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Product |
| 5 | **stay** | present | de Foxes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **kep** | present | dey |  |  | quollin |  |  | tree rules |

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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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