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title: You bin cuttin' up yo' capers en bouncin''roun' in dis neighberhood… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: You bin cuttin' up yo' capers en bouncin''roun' in dis neighberhood ontwel you come ter b'leeve yo'se'f de boss er de whole gang. Who acts: You, capers. 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 t
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 13

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You bin cuttin' up yo' capers en bouncin''roun' in dis neighberhood ontwel you come ter b'leeve yo'se'f de boss er de whole gang.

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**Who acts:** You, capers · **What happens:** bin up, bouncin, be · **To what, where:** cuttin, b'leeve yo'se'f, dis neighberhood ontwel

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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, capers), 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:pg2306:7:13
# text = You bin cuttin' up yo' capers en bouncin''roun' in dis neighberhood ontwel you come ter b'leeve yo'se'f de boss er de whole gang.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	cuttin	cuttin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
6	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	capers	caper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	en	en	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	compound	_	_
10	bouncin	bouncin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	''	''	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	neighberhood	neighberhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	ontwel	ontwel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	ter	ter	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	b'leeve	b'leeve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	yo'se'f	yo'se'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	compound	_	_
24	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
25	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	conj	_	_
26	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	flat:foreign	_	_
27	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	gang	gang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin up** | present | You | cuttin |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cuttin=Theme |
| 2 | **bouncin** |  | yo's capers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | b'leeve yo'se'f |  | dis neighberhood ontwel |  | ter *property* | 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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