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title: He sorter losin' his gait now, but I speck I kin fetch 'im all right… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He sorter losin' his gait now, but I speck I kin fetch 'im all right in a mont' er so,' sezee. 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 69

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He sorter losin' his gait now, but I speck I kin fetch 'im all right in a mont' er so,' sezee.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** speck, fetch · **To what, where:** sezee

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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:pg2306:9:69
# text = He sorter losin' his gait now, but I speck I kin fetch 'im all right in a mont' er so,' sezee.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	losin	losin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	gait	gait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	speck	speck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	kin	kin	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	im	im	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	mont	mont	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	's	PART	POS	_	27	punct	_	_
27	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speck** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fetch** |  | I | sezee |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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