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title: Dat bait er pusly w'at I e't dis mawnin' is gittin' 'way wid me. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dat bait er pusly w'at I e't dis mawnin' is gittin' 'way wid me. Who acts: I. 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 33

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Dat bait er pusly w'at I e't dis mawnin' is gittin' 'way wid me.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** bait, e't, be, wi · **To what, where:** w'at, dis mawnin, bait gittin, 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 (I), 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:pg2306:9:33
# text = Dat bait er pusly w'at I e't dis mawnin' is gittin' 'way wid me.
1	Dat	dat	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
2	bait	bait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	compound	_	_
3	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
4	pusly	pusly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	e't	e't	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	mawnin	mawnin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	gittin	gittin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:desc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
16	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bait** |  |  | w'at |  |  |  | e *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent w'at=Destination |
| 2 | **e't** | past | I | dis mawnin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | bait gittin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wi** | past |  | way |  |  |  |  | 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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