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title: "'Ladies, ain't I done tell you Brer Fox wuz de ridin'-hoss fer our… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Ladies, ain't I done tell you Brer Fox wuz de ridin'-hoss fer our fambly? Who acts: Den, Ladies. 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 68

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"'Ladies, ain't I done tell you Brer Fox wuz de ridin'-hoss fer our fambly?

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**Who acts:** Den, Ladies · **What happens:** not do, tell · **To what, where:** Ladies, Fox wuz, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Den, Ladies), 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:pg2306:9:68
# text = "'Ladies, ain't I done tell you Brer Fox wuz de ridin'-hoss fer our fambly?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat:foreign	_	_
15	ridin	ridin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	hoss	hoss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
20	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	fambly	fambly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | participle | Den | Ladies and ai *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Eventuality |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Ladies and ai | Fox wuz and ridin's hoss fer | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient wuz=Topic |

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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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