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title: Lemme tell you dis, Brer Ab: don't you let deze sines onsettle you. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Lemme tell you dis, Brer Ab: don't you let deze sines onsettle you. Who acts: Lemme, you, deze sines. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. His Practical View of Things, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 21

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Lemme tell you dis, Brer Ab: don't you let deze sines onsettle you.

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**Who acts:** Lemme, you, deze sines · **What happens:** tell, not let, onsettle · **To what, where:** dis, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. His Practical View of Things. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lemme, you, deze sines), 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:pg2306:59:21
# text = Lemme tell you dis, Brer Ab: don't you let deze sines onsettle you.
1	Lemme	Lemme	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	Ab	Ab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
13	deze	deze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	sines	sine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	onsettle	onsettle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Lemme | dis | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient dis=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **let** | infinitive · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **onsettle** | present | deze sines | you |  |  |  |  | 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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