--- title: "'Well, I speck I got you dis time, Brer Rabbit, sezee; 'maybe I ain… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'Well, I speck I got you dis time, Brer Rabbit, sezee; 'maybe I ain't, but I speck I is. Who acts: Bimeby, you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/7/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For M…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/7/) / 11 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 11 "'Well, I speck I got you dis time, Brer Rabbit, sezee; 'maybe I ain't, but I speck I is. **Who acts:** Bimeby, you · **What happens:** speck, get, dis, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bimeby, 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:pg2306:7:11 # text = "'Well, I speck I got you dis time, Brer Rabbit, sezee; 'maybe I ain't, but I speck I is. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Well well INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 speck speck VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 dis dis VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 11 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 maybe maybe ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 ai be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 22 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 speck speck VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speck** *in a quote* | present | Bimeby | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **get** *in a quote* | past | Bimeby | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **dis** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | time | | tree rules | | 4 | **speck** *in a quote* | present | Bimeby | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **be** *in a quote* | present | Bimeby | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/7/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/7/12/) - ↑ back to [IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/7/)