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title: You better b'leeve dat w'en Mr. Dog got a chance to make hisse'f ska… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: You better b'leeve dat w'en Mr. Dog got a chance to make hisse'f skase he tuck it, en w'at der wuz lef' un him went skaddlin' thoo de woods like hit wuz shot outen a muskit. Who acts: You, hisse'f, Dog, un. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 18

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You better b'leeve dat w'en Mr. Dog got a chance to make hisse'f skase he tuck it, en w'at der wuz lef' un him went skaddlin' thoo de woods like hit wuz shot outen a muskit.

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**Who acts:** You, hisse'f, Dog, un, skaddlin · **What happens:** get, make, skase, tuck, go, shoot · **To what, where:** chance, hisse'f, outen

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, hisse'f, Dog, un), 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:pg2306:6:18
# text = You better b'leeve dat w'en Mr. Dog got a chance to make hisse'f skase he tuck it, en w'at der wuz lef' un him went skaddlin' thoo de woods like hit wuz shot outen a muskit.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	xcomp	_	_
3	b'leeve	b'leeve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	_
7	Dog	Dog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	hisse'f	hisse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	skase	skase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	tuck	tuck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
22	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	lef	lef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	skaddlin	skaddlin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
30	thoo	thoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
37	outen	outen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	muskit	muskit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | You | a chance |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | hisse'f |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **skase** | infinitive | hisse'f *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tuck** | infinitive | Dog | hisse'f |  |  |  | en w'at *obl* | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | past | wuz lef's un |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **shoot** | past | skaddlin and de woods like hit wuz | outen |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent outen=Destination muskit=Theme |

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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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