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title: "'I'm gwine ter larn you how ter talk ter 'spectubble folks ef hit's… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'I'm gwine ter larn you how ter talk ter 'spectubble folks ef hit's de las' ack,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. ' Who acts: little boy, gwine ter, spectubble folks. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, with its dependency tree a
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 18

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"'I'm gwine ter larn you how ter talk ter 'spectubble folks ef hit's de las' ack,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. '

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**Who acts:** little boy, gwine ter, spectubble folks · **What happens:** be, larn, say, hit · **To what, where:** gwine ter, you, Brer · **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. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, gwine ter, spectubble folks), 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:pg2306:5:18
# text = "'I'm gwine ter larn you how ter talk ter 'spectubble folks ef hit's de las' ack,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. '
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	gwine	gwine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	larn	larn	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	obj	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	ter	ter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	spectubble	spectubble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	las	la	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	ack	ack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
25	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
26	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the little boy *= boy* | gwine ter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **larn** *in a quote* | present | gwine ter | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | gwine ter *not said here* | Brer |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic |
| 4 | **hit** *in a quote* |  | spectubble folks |  |  |  |  |  | nom hit «act transitive»: poss=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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