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title: I done bin fool wid dat mule befo', an' I tuck'n tole Jim dat he bet… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I done bin fool wid dat mule befo', an' I tuck'n tole Jim dat he better not git tangle up wid 'er; but Jim, he up'n 'low dat he wuz a hoss- doctor, an' wid dat he ax me fer a chaw terbacker, en den he got de bridle, en tuck'n kotch de mule en got on her--Well," continued Uncle Remus, looking uneasil
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, sentence 11

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I done bin fool wid dat mule befo', an' I tuck'n tole Jim dat he better not git tangle up wid 'er; but Jim, he up'n 'low dat he wuz a hoss- doctor, an' wid dat he ax me fer a chaw terbacker, en den he got de bridle, en tuck'n kotch de mule en got on her--Well," continued Uncle Remus, looking uneasily around, "I speck you better go git yo' ticket.

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**Who acts:** I, Dat, Jim, wid dat, chaw terbacker, de bridle · **What happens:** do, bin, tole, tangle up, up'n, wuz · **To what, where:** fool, wid er, hoss doctor, me, en, Uncle Remus · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Dat, Jim, wid dat), 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:pg2306:47:11
# text = I done bin fool wid dat mule befo', an' I tuck'n tole Jim dat he better not git tangle up wid 'er; but Jim, he up'n 'low dat he wuz a hoss- doctor, an' wid dat he ax me fer a chaw terbacker, en den he got de bridle, en tuck'n kotch de mule en got on her--Well," continued Uncle Remus, looking uneasily around, "I speck you better go git yo' ticket.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	done	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	bin	bin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
4	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	befo	befo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	',	',	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	tuck'n	tuck'n	X	FW	_	14	compound	_	_
14	tole	tole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	Jim	Jim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	tangle	tangle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
28	Jim	Jim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	up'n	up'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	list	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	hoss	hoss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	_
40	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
42	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	_
44	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	ax	ax	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
48	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	47	xcomp	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	chaw	chaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	terbacker	terbacker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	conj	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	parataxis	_	_
58	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
61	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	conj	_	_
62	tuck'n	tuck'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	compound	_	_
63	kotch	kotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	compound	_	_
64	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	compound	_	_
65	mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	compound	_	_
66	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	nsubj	_	_
67	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	parataxis	_	_
68	on	on	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
69	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	67	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	74	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	74	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	71	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	71	punct	_	_
74	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	67	parataxis	_	_
75	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	76	compound	_	_
76	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	74	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	78	punct	_	_
78	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	74	advcl	_	_
79	uneasily	uneasily	ADV	RB	_	80	advmod	_	_
80	around	around	ADV	RB	_	78	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
81	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	84	punct	_	_
82	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	84	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
83	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	84	nsubj	_	_
84	speck	speck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	78	advcl	_	_
85	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	84	obj	_	_
86	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	84	advmod	_	_
87	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	84	xcomp	_	_
88	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	89	compound	_	_
89	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	91	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
90	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	89	punct	_	_
91	ticket	ticket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	87	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
92	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bin** | infinitive | I *not said here* | fool  wid mule befo |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fool=Theme |
| 3 | **tole** |  | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tangle up** | infinitive | Dat | wid er |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **up'n** |  | Dat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **wuz** | present | Jim | a hoss doctor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **ax** | infinitive | a wid dat | me |  |  |  | f *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **get** | past | a chaw terbacker and en den |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **get** | past | de bridle and en | en |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **continue** *in a quote* | past |  | Uncle Remus |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent remus=Theme |
| 11 | **look** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 12 | **speck** | present | I | you |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 13 | **go** | infinitive | I *not said here* | yo ticket |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ticket=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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