--- title: "Sez I ter myse'f, sez I: 'Honey, you er right on my route, en I'll… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "Sez I ter myse'f, sez I: 'Honey, you er right on my route, en I'll des see w'at kinder bird you got roostin' in you,' en w'iles I wuz a lookin' out bus' de smoke--piff! en den--bang! Who acts: I, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:46:120 # text = "Sez I ter myse'f, sez I: 'Honey, you er right on my route, en I'll des see w'at kinder bird you got roostin' in you,' en w'iles I wuz a lookin' out bus' de smoke--piff! en den--bang! 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Sez sez INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 ter ter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 csubj _ _ 5 myse'f myse'f NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 sez say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 14 er er ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 15 right right ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 route route NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 des des X FW Foreign=Yes 24 dep _ _ 24 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 26 kinder kind ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 amod _ _ 27 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 roostin roostin NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 36 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 w'iles w'ile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 wuz wuz VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 lookin lookin NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 43 out out ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 44 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ _ 46 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 47 compound _ _ 47 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 -- -- PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 piff piff NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ! ! PUNCT . _ 52 punct _ _ 51 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 compound _ _ 52 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 -- -- PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 bang bang NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ! ! PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ter** *in a quote* | present | I | myse'f | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* *in a quote* | present | | I | | | | Honey *obl* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Topic | | 3 | **see** *in a quote* | future | I | w'at kinder bird | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus | | 4 | **get** *in a quote* | past | you | roostin | | | | in you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer roostin=Stimulus | | 5 | **wuz out** *in a quote* | present | you | a lookin | | my route and en and en w'iles | | en den and bang *obl*; right *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/46/119/) - next →: [sentence 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/46/121/) - ↑ back to [A Story of the War](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/46/)