--- title: "'Ladies, I ain't 'sputin' w'at you say, but I'll make Brer Rabbit c… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'Ladies, I ain't 'sputin' w'at you say, but I'll make Brer Rabbit chaw up his words en spit um out right yer whar you kin see 'im,' sezee, en wid dat off Brer Fox put. Who acts: you, I, Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Ra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/9/23/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/9/) / 23 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 23 "'Ladies, I ain't 'sputin' w'at you say, but I'll make Brer Rabbit chaw up his words en spit um out right yer whar you kin see 'im,' sezee, en wid dat off Brer Fox put. **Who acts:** you, I, Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Rabbit · **What happens:** say, make, chaw up, kin, see, put · **To what, where:** sputin w'at, Brer Rabbit, words, yer whar, wid dat · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, I, Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:9:23 # text = "'Ladies, I ain't 'sputin' w'at you say, but I'll make Brer Rabbit chaw up his words en spit um out right yer whar you kin see 'im,' sezee, en wid dat off Brer Fox put. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 6 ai be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 7 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 sputin sputin NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 19 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 chaw chaw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 25 en en ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 spit spit NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 28 out out ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 right right ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 yer y ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 amod _ _ 31 whar whar NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 kin kin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 34 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 35 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 im im ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 39 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 wid wid NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 appos _ _ 44 off off ADP IN _ 47 mark _ _ 45 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 47 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | you | sputin w'at *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** *in a quote* | future | I | Brer Rabbit | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **chaw up** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brer Rabbit *not said here* | Rabbit's words | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **kin** *in a quote* | present | you | yer whar | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **put** *in a quote* | past | Brer Fox | wid dat *not said here* | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent dat=Goal | | 7 | **word** *in a quote* | | Rabbit | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/9/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/9/24/) - ↑ back to [VI. 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