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title: Leas'ways, Miss Meadows en de gals got win' un' it, en de nex' time… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Leas'ways, Miss Meadows en de gals got win' un' it, en de nex' time Brer Rabbit paid um a visit Miss Meadows tackled 'im 'bout it, en de gals sot up a monstus gigglement. Who acts: Leas'ways, Brer, Miss Meadows. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 14

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Leas'ways, Miss Meadows en de gals got win' un' it, en de nex' time Brer Rabbit paid um a visit Miss Meadows tackled 'im 'bout it, en de gals sot up a monstus gigglement.

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**Who acts:** Leas'ways, Brer, Miss Meadows · **What happens:** get, pay, tackle up · **To what, where:** win un, en, im

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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 (Leas'ways, Brer, Miss Meadows), 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:pg2306:9:14
# text = Leas'ways, Miss Meadows en de gals got win' un' it, en de nex' time Brer Rabbit paid um a visit Miss Meadows tackled 'im 'bout it, en de gals sot up a monstus gigglement.
1	Leas'ways	leas'way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Meadows	Meadow	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	conj	_	_
7	gals	gal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	win	win	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
17	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:desc	_	_
20	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
23	um	um	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
26	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	tackled	tackle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	im	im	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obj	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	bout	bout	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	gals	gal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	compound	_	_
38	sot	sot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
39	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	monstus	monstus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	gigglement	gigglement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Leas'ways and Meadows en | win un |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent un=Beneficiary it=Theme |
| 2 | **pay** | past | Brer  nex time | en |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tackle up** | past | Miss Meadows | im |  |  |  | um a visit; bout en; gals sot *obl* | 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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