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title: "'Bout dat time Sis Tempy, she lipt up in de a'r, an' sing out dat s… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Bout dat time Sis Tempy, she lipt up in de a'r, an' sing out dat she done gone an tromple on de Ole Boy, an' she kep' on lippin' up an' slingin' out 'er han's twel bimeby--blip!--she tuck Sis Becky in de mouf, an' den Sis Becky riz an' fetch a grab at Sis Tempy, an' I 'clar' ter grashus ef didn't 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 16

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"'Bout dat time Sis Tempy, she lipt up in de a'r, an' sing out dat she done gone an tromple on de Ole Boy, an' she kep' on lippin' up an' slingin' out 'er han's twel bimeby--blip!--she tuck Sis Becky in de mouf, an' den Sis Becky riz an' fetch a grab at Sis Tempy, an' I 'clar' ter grashus ef didn't 'pear ter me like she got a poun' er wool.

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**Who acts:** dey, Becky riz, grashus ef · **What happens:** lipt up, sing out, go, kep, tuck, fetch · **To what, where:** de a'r, tromple, Sis Becky, de mouf, grab, Sis Tempy

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dey, Becky riz, grashus 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:pg2306:48:16
# text = "'Bout dat time Sis Tempy, she lipt up in de a'r, an' sing out dat she done gone an tromple on de Ole Boy, an' she kep' on lippin' up an' slingin' out 'er han's twel bimeby--blip!--she tuck Sis Becky in de mouf, an' den Sis Becky riz an' fetch a grab at Sis Tempy, an' I 'clar' ter grashus ef didn't 'pear ter me like she got a poun' er wool.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Bout	Bout	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	Sis	Sis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	Tempy	Tempy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lipt	lipt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	compound	_	_
14	a'r	a'r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	compound	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	done	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	tromple	tromple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	de	de	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	kep	kep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	lippin	lippin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
39	up	up	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	_
42	slingin	slingin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	_
44	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
45	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	47	amod	_	_
47	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	's	's	PART	POS	_	47	case	_	_
49	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	blip	blip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	tuck	tuck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	parataxis	_	_
57	Sis	Sis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	Becky	Becky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	_
59	in	in	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	61	compound	_	_
61	mouf	mouf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
63	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	65	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	65	punct	_	_
65	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	conj	_	_
66	Sis	Sis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	67	compound	_	_
67	Becky	Becky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	68	compound	_	_
68	riz	riz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	conj	_	_
69	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	71	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	71	punct	_	_
71	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	68	acl	_	_
72	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	73	det	_	_
73	grab	grab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	71	obj	_	_
74	at	at	ADP	IN	_	76	case	_	_
75	Sis	Sis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	76	compound	_	_
76	Tempy	Tempy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	71	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	80	punct	_	_
78	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	80	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
79	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	80	punct	_	_
80	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	76	conj	_	_
81	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	80	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
82	clar	clar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	80	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
83	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	89	punct	_	_
84	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	85	compound	_	_
85	grashus	grashus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	86	compound	_	_
86	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	89	nsubj	_	_
87	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	89	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
88	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	89	advmod	_	_
89	'	'	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	82	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
90	pear	pear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	89	obj	_	_
91	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	92	case	_	_
92	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	89	obl	_	_
93	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	95	mark	_	_
94	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	95	nsubj	_	_
95	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	89	advcl	_	_
96	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	97	det	_	_
97	poun	poun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	100	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
98	'	's	PART	POS	_	97	case	_	_
99	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	100	compound	_	_
100	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	95	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
101	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lipt up** *in a quote* | past | dey |  |  | de a'r | time | up a slingin; out *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing out** *speech: express* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | past · do-support | dey | a tromple |  |  |  | on Ole Boy | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tromple=Theme |
| 4 | **kep** *in a quote* | infinitive | dey |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **tuck** *in a quote* | infinitive | dey | Sis Becky |  | de mouf and a den and Becky riz |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent becky=Theme in mouf=Trajectory |
| 6 | **fetch** *in a quote* | infinitive | Becky riz *not said here* | a grab |  | Sis Tempy |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent grab=Theme at tempy=Asset |
| 7 | **not** **'** *in a quote* | past · do-support | grashus ef | pear |  |  |  | ter Brer | tree rules |
| 8 | **get** *in a quote* | past | dey | a poun's er wool |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wool=Stimulus |

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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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