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title: "I mout drap in, Brer Rastus, an' den ag'in I moutn't, but w'en you… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "I mout drap in, Brer Rastus, an' den ag'in I moutn't, but w'en you duz see me santer in de do', wid my specs on, you k'n des say to de congergashun, sorter familious like, 'Yer come ole man Remus wid his hoss-pistol, an' ef dar's much uv a skuffle 'roun' yer dis evenin' you er gwineter year fum 'im
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 34

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"I mout drap in, Brer Rastus, an' den ag'in I moutn't, but w'en you duz see me santer in de do', wid my specs on, you k'n des say to de congergashun, sorter familious like, 'Yer come ole man Remus wid his hoss-pistol, an' ef dar's much uv a skuffle 'roun' yer dis evenin' you er gwineter year fum 'im.'

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**Who acts:** fer ter, you, w'en, des, Yer, ole man · **What happens:** drap, not mout, duz, see, wid, k'n · **To what, where:** Brer, den ag'in, w'en, fer ter, specs, congergashun · **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 (fer ter, you, w'en, des), 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:pg2306:48:34
# text = "I mout drap in, Brer Rastus, an' den ag'in I moutn't, but w'en you duz see me santer in de do', wid my specs on, you k'n des say to de congergashun, sorter familious like, 'Yer come ole man Remus wid his hoss-pistol, an' ef dar's much uv a skuffle 'roun' yer dis evenin' you er gwineter year fum 'im.'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	mout	mout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	drap	drap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	Rastus	Rastus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
12	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	ag'in	ag'in	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	mout	mout	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	duz	duz	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	santer	santer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	',	',	X	GW	_	29	punct	_	_
29	wid	wid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	specs	spec	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	on	on	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	k'n	k'n	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
36	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	ccomp	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	de	de	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	congergashun	congergashun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
43	familious	familious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	conj	_	_
44	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	39	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	Yer	Yer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	conj	_	_
49	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
51	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
52	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	ccomp	_	_
53	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
54	hoss	hoss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	pistol	pistol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
58	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	64	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	64	punct	_	_
60	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	_
61	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	's	's	PART	POS	_	61	case	_	_
63	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	uv	ultra-violet	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	56	conj	_	_
65	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
66	skuffle	skuffle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	compound	_	_
67	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	68	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	68	punct	_	_
70	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	72	nmod:poss	_	_
71	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	compound	_	_
72	evenin	evenin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	75	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	72	punct	_	_
74	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	75	nsubj	_	_
75	er	er	X	GW	_	68	appos	_	_
76	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	77	compound	_	_
77	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	78	compound	_	_
78	fum	fum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	80	nmod:poss	_	_
79	'	's	PART	POS	_	78	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
80	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	75	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
81	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
82	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drap** *in a quote* | present | fer ter *= ter* | Brer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **mout** *in a quote* | present | fer ter *= ter* | a den ag'in *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **duz** *in a quote* | present | you | w'en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | w'en | fer ter *= ter* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **wid** *in a quote* | infinitive | w'en *not said here* | my specs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **k'n** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | des |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **de** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | des *not said here* | congergashun and sorter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | Yer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **wi** *in a quote* | past | ole man | Remus's hoss pistol and ef dar's much uv and a skuffle roun |  |  |  |  | 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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