--- title: "'Tu'n me loose, fo' I kick de natchul stuffin' outen you,' sez Brer… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'Tu'n me loose, fo' I kick de natchul stuffin' outen you,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, but de Tar-Baby, she ain't sayin' nuthin'. Who acts: Tu'n, you. 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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 (Tu'n, you), 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:pg2306:5:28 # text = "'Tu'n me loose, fo' I kick de natchul stuffin' outen you,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, but de Tar-Baby, she ain't sayin' nuthin'. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Tu'n Tu'n PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 loose loose ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 fo for ADP IN Abbr=Yes 10 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 kick kick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 13 compound _ _ 12 natchul natchul ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 stuffin stuffin NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 outen outen NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 19 sez say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 20 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 26 de de ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Tar Tar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 Baby Baby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 ai be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 sayin sayin NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 36 nuthin nuthin NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kick** *in a quote* | present | Tu'n | de natchul stuffin and outen | | | | loose *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent stuffin=Patient | | 2 | **outen** *in a quote* | | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | | Brer | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | 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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/5/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/5/29/) - ↑ back to [II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/5/)