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title: You dunno nuthin' 'tall 'bout Brer Rabbit ef dat's de way you puttin… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: You dunno nuthin' 'tall 'bout Brer Rabbit ef dat's de way you puttin' 'im down. Who acts: You. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 10

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You dunno nuthin' 'tall 'bout Brer Rabbit ef dat's de way you puttin' 'im down.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** dunno, puttin, im down · **To what, where:** nuthin, de way

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives 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), 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:pg2306:9:10
# text = You dunno nuthin' 'tall 'bout Brer Rabbit ef dat's de way you puttin' 'im down.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dunno	dunno	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nuthin	nuthin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	appos	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	bout	bout	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
9	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	puttin	puttin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	im	im	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dunno** | present | You | nuthin |  |  |  | bout de way | tree rules |
| 2 | **puttin** | present | you | de way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **im down** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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