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title: "All de time, bless grashus, honey, Brer Rabbit wer' puttin' on his… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "All de time, bless grashus, honey, Brer Rabbit wer' puttin' on his spurrers, en w'en dey got close to Miss Meadows's, whar Brer Rabbit wuz to git off, en Brer Fox made a motion fer ter stan' still, Brer Rabbit slap de spurrers into Brer Fox flanks, en you better b'leeve he got over groun'. Who acts
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 65

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"All de time, bless grashus, honey, Brer Rabbit wer' puttin' on his spurrers, en w'en dey got close to Miss Meadows's, whar Brer Rabbit wuz to git off, en Brer Fox made a motion fer ter stan' still, Brer Rabbit slap de spurrers into Brer Fox flanks, en you better b'leeve he got over groun'.

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**Who acts:** you, dey, en · **What happens:** bless off, get, make, b'leeve, get over · **To what, where:** grashus, spurrers, motion fer, groun

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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, dey, en), 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:pg2306:9:65
# text = "All de time, bless grashus, honey, Brer Rabbit wer' puttin' on his spurrers, en w'en dey got close to Miss Meadows's, whar Brer Rabbit wuz to git off, en Brer Fox made a motion fer ter stan' still, Brer Rabbit slap de spurrers into Brer Fox flanks, en you better b'leeve he got over groun'.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
3	de	de	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	conj	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	bless	bless	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	grashus	grashus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
12	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	wer	wer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	puttin	puttin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	spurrers	spurrer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	w'en	w'en	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	flat	_	_
23	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl	_	_
25	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Meadows	Meadows	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	whar	whar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
32	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
33	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	_
34	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	list	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
37	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
40	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
41	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	flat	_	_
42	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	motion	motion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
46	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	47	punct	_	_
49	still	still	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
51	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
52	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	slap	slap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	spurrers	spurrer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
56	into	into	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	_
58	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	_
59	flanks	flank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
61	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	conj	_	_
62	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
63	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	64	amod	_	_
64	b'leeve	b'leeve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	conj	_	_
65	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	66	nsubj	_	_
66	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	64	acl:relcl	_	_
67	over	over	ADV	RB	_	68	advmod	_	_
68	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	68	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bless off** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | grashus and honey |  | Brer's spurrers and en and whar | time | to git | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grashus=Theme |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | past | dey | Brer's spurrers and en and whar *not said here* |  |  |  | close *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spurrer=Stimulus |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | past | en | a motion fer |  |  | still | ter stan; de spurrers into Brer Fox flanks and en and better b'leeve *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fer=Product |
| 4 | **b'leeve** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **get over** *in a quote* | past | dey | groun |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer groun=Stimulus |

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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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