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title: If Brer John Henry know'd de color er dat watermillion, I speck he'd… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: If Brer John Henry know'd de color er dat watermillion, I speck he'd snatch me up 'fo' de confunce. Who acts: Brer John, I, John. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 24

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If Brer John Henry know'd de color er dat watermillion, I speck he'd snatch me up 'fo' de confunce.

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**Who acts:** Brer John, I, John · **What happens:** know, de, speck, snatch up · **To what, where:** color, me

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer John, I, John), 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:pg2306:60:24
# text = If Brer John Henry know'd de color er dat watermillion, I speck he'd snatch me up 'fo' de confunce.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	de	de	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
10	dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	watermillion	watermillion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	speck	speck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	snatch	snatch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	24	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	compound	_	_
24	confunce	confunce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Brer John |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **de** | would |  | color  that watermillion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **speck** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **snatch up** | would | John | me |  |  |  | for de confunce | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Theme for confunce=Beneficiary |

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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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