--- title: "'Ef you don't lemme loose, I'll knock you agin,' sez Brer Rabbit, s… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'Ef you don't lemme loose, I'll knock you agin,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, en wid dat he fotch 'er a wipe wid de udder han', en dat stuck. Who acts: you, Ef, Brer, han en. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Ef, Brer, han en), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:5:26 # text = "'Ef you don't lemme loose, I'll knock you agin,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, en wid dat he fotch 'er a wipe wid de udder han', en dat stuck. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Ef Ef PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 6 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 lemme lemme VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 loose loose ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 knock knock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 agin agin NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 17 sez say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 18 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 wid wid NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 fotch fotch NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 28 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 er er ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 wipe wipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 32 wid wid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 33 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 32 flat:foreign _ _ 34 udder udder NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 han han NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ', ', PART POS _ 35 dep _ _ 37 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 dat dat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 39 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **lemme** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | Ef | | | | loose *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **knock** *in a quote* | future | Ef | agin | you | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination agin=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* | Brer | | | | er a wipe | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | | 4 | **fotch** *in a quote* | | Brer | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **dat** *in a quote* | past | han en | | | | | stuck *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/5/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/5/27/) - ↑ back to [II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/5/)