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title: Who ax you fer ter come en strike up a 'quaintance wid dish yer Tar-… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Who ax you fer ter come en strike up a 'quaintance wid dish yer Tar-Baby? Who acts: fer ter, en. 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.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 15

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Who ax you fer ter come en strike up a 'quaintance wid dish yer Tar-Baby?

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**Who acts:** fer ter, en · **What happens:** ax, come, strike up · **To what, where:** you, quaintance wid dish

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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 (fer ter, en), 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:pg2306:7:15
# text = Who ax you fer ter come en strike up a 'quaintance wid dish yer Tar-Baby?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ax	ax	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	strike	strike	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	quaintance	quaintance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
15	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	Tar	Tar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Baby	Baby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ax** | present |  | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | fer ter |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **strike up** | present | en | a quaintance wid dish |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient |

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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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