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title: You been runnin' roun' here sassin' atter me a mighty long time, but… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: You been runnin' roun' here sassin' atter me a mighty long time, but I speck you done come ter de een' er de row. Who acts: You, I. 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 pragmatic
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 12

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You been runnin' roun' here sassin' atter me a mighty long time, but I speck you done come ter de een' er de row.

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**Who acts:** You, I · **What happens:** runnin, speck, do, come · **To what, where:** roun, you, er

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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 (You, I), 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:pg2306:7:12
# text = You been runnin' roun' here sassin' atter me a mighty long time, but I speck you done come ter de een' er de row.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	aux	_	_
3	runnin	runnin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
8	sassin	sassin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	speck	speck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
22	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
23	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	flat:foreign	_	_
25	een	een	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	29	compound	_	_
29	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **runnin** | participle · progressive | You | roun |  | here | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **speck** | present | I | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | infinitive | I *not said here* | ter een's er and de row |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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