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title: I 'clar ter grashus I ought er tole you dat, but old man Nod wuz rid… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I 'clar ter grashus I ought er tole you dat, but old man Nod wuz ridin' on my eyeleds 'twel a leetle mo'n I'd a dis'member'd my own name, en den on to dat here come yo mammy hollerin' atter you. Who acts: I, you, old man, leetle mo'n. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Ch
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 3

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I 'clar ter grashus I ought er tole you dat, but old man Nod wuz ridin' on my eyeleds 'twel a leetle mo'n I'd a dis'member'd my own name, en den on to dat here come yo mammy hollerin' atter you.

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**Who acts:** I, you, old man, leetle mo'n · **What happens:** grashus, er, dat, ridin, name, come · **To what, where:** tole, twel

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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 (I, you, old man, leetle mo'n), 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:pg2306:7:3
# text = I 'clar ter grashus I ought er tole you dat, but old man Nod wuz ridin' on my eyeleds 'twel a leetle mo'n I'd a dis'member'd my own name, en den on to dat here come yo mammy hollerin' atter you.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	clar	clar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	grashus	grashus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	er	er	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	tole	tole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	dat	dat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	Nod	Nod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	ridin	ridin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	eyeleds	eyeled	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	'	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	leetle	leetle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	mo'n	mo'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	dis'member	dis'member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	43	advmod	_	_
43	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
44	yo	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Slng	46	nmod:poss	_	_
45	mammy	mammy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	hollerin	hollerin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	48	punct	_	_
48	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	_
49	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	43	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grashus** |  | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **er** | ought | I | tole |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dat** | present | you | tole *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **ridin** |  | old man |  |  | my eyeleds's twel |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **name** | would | a leetle mo'n | my eyeleds's twel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** | present |  |  |  | here |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **hollerin** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | 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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