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title: "An' you speck ter retch dar safe an soun'? — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "An' you speck ter retch dar safe an soun'? Who acts: you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. the Emigrants, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 19

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"An' you speck ter retch dar safe an soun'?

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** speck, retch · **To what, where:** An, dar

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. the Emigrants. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg2306:57:19
# text = "An' you speck ter retch dar safe an soun'?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	speck	speck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	ter	ter	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	retch	retch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	soun	soun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speck** *in a quote* | present | you | An |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **retch** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | dar |  |  |  |  | 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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