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title: You des tuck en jam yo'se'f on dat Tar-Baby widout waitin' fer enny… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: You des tuck en jam yo'se'f on dat Tar-Baby widout waitin' fer enny invite,' sez Brer Fox, sezee, en dar you is, en dar you'll stay twel I fixes up a bresh-pile and fires her up, kaze I'm gwineter bobby-cue you dis day, sho,' sez Brer Fox, sezee. Who acts: You, twel, I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, H
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 18

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You des tuck en jam yo'se'f on dat Tar-Baby widout waitin' fer enny invite,' sez Brer Fox, sezee, en dar you is, en dar you'll stay twel I fixes up a bresh-pile and fires her up, kaze I'm gwineter bobby-cue you dis day, sho,' sez Brer Fox, sezee.

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**Who acts:** You, twel, I · **What happens:** tuck, be, stay, fix up, fire up, dis · **To what, where:** jam yo'se'f, dat, en dar, bresh pile, twel, gwineter bobby cue · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, twel, 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:pg2306:7:18
# text = You des tuck en jam yo'se'f on dat Tar-Baby widout waitin' fer enny invite,' sez Brer Fox, sezee, en dar you is, en dar you'll stay twel I fixes up a bresh-pile and fires her up, kaze I'm gwineter bobby-cue you dis day, sho,' sez Brer Fox, sezee.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	des	des	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	tuck	tuck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	yo'se'f	yo'se'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	Tar	Tar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Baby	Baby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	widout	widout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	waitin	waitin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
15	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	enny	enny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	invite	invite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
20	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
36	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	fixes	fix	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	parataxis	_	_
39	up	up	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	bresh	bresh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	fires	fire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
46	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	up	up	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
50	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	_
52	gwineter	gwineter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
53	bobby	bobby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	cue	cue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	acl:relcl	_	_
56	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	dis	dis	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	acl:relcl	_	_
58	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
60	sho	sho	NOUN	NN	_	58	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	63	punct	_	_
63	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
64	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	65	compound	_	_
65	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
67	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tuck** |  | You | jam yo'se'f |  | dat |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent yo'se'f=Theme on dat=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stay** | future | you | en dar |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fix up** | present | twel | a bresh pile |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pile=Patient |
| 5 | **fire up** | present | twel *not said here* | twel |  |  |  | kaze *obl* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | present | I | gwineter bobby cue |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **dis** | present | you | gwineter bobby cue *not said here* |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | Brer Fox and sezee |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic |

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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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