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title: "Hit's des like I tell you, Brer Rastus, an' I hatter git Mars John… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Hit's des like I tell you, Brer Rastus, an' I hatter git Mars John fer to go inter my bon's fer me. Who acts: des, wunner. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 26

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"Hit's des like I tell you, Brer Rastus, an' I hatter git Mars John fer to go inter my bon's fer me.

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**Who acts:** des, wunner · **What happens:** tell, hatter, go · **To what, where:** you, git John fer, inter fer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (des, wunner), 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:pg2306:48:26
# text = "Hit's des like I tell you, Brer Rastus, an' I hatter git Mars John fer to go inter my bon's fer me.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hit	Hit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
11	Rastus	Rastus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	hatter	hatter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
18	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
23	inter	int	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	bon	bon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Hit's des like I |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 2 | **hatter** *in a quote* | present | wunner | git John fer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | wunner *not said here* | my bon's inter fer |  |  |  |  | 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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