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title: But don't you bodder longer dat ark, 'ceppin' your mammy fetches it… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: But don't you bodder longer dat ark, 'ceppin' your mammy fetches it up. Who acts: ceppin. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 31

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But don't you bodder longer dat ark, 'ceppin' your mammy fetches it up.

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**Who acts:** ceppin · **What happens:** fetch up · **To what, where:** mammy

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ceppin), 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:pg2306:8:31
# text = But don't you bodder longer dat ark, 'ceppin' your mammy fetches it up.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bodder	bodd	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
7	dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ark	ark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	ceppin	ceppin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	mammy	mammy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	fetches	fetch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fetch up** | present | ceppin | mammy |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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