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title: "You er talkin' 'bout deze yer sparrers, w'ich dey er all head, en '… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "You er talkin' 'bout deze yer sparrers, w'ich dey er all head, en 'lev'm un makes one mouffle,*2 I speck," suggested Uncle Remus. " Who acts: You, un, Uncle Remus. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, with its depe
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 21

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"You er talkin' 'bout deze yer sparrers, w'ich dey er all head, en 'lev'm un makes one mouffle,\*2 I speck," suggested Uncle Remus. "

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**Who acts:** You, un, Uncle Remus · **What happens:** er, be, speck, suggest · **To what, where:** talkin, 2 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, un, Uncle Remus), 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:pg2306:49:21
# text = "You er talkin' 'bout deze yer sparrers, w'ich dey er all head, en 'lev'm un makes one mouffle,*2 I speck," suggested Uncle Remus. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	er	er	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	talkin	talkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	bout	bout	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	deze	deze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	yer	y	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	sparrers	sparrer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	w'ich	w'ich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	er	er	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	lev	lev	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	mouffle	mouffle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	obl	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	speck	speck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	_
33	suggested	suggest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
34	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **er** *in a quote* | present | You | talkin |  |  |  | bout deze yer sparrers and w'ich dey er all head and en and lev | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | un |  |  |  |  | make *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **speck** *in a quote* | present | Uncle Remus *= remus* | 2 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | past | Uncle Remus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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