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title: "Dat ain't all, honey, but 'twon't do fer ter give out too much clof… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Dat ain't all, honey, but 'twon't do fer ter give out too much cloff fer ter cut one pa'r pants," replied the old man sententiously. Who acts: two, fer ter, much cloff fer ter, old man. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives M
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 72

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"Dat ain't all, honey, but 'twon't do fer ter give out too much cloff fer ter cut one pa'r pants," replied the old man sententiously.

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**Who acts:** two, fer ter, much cloff fer ter, old man · **What happens:** not do, give out, cut, reply · **To what, where:** one pa'r pants · **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 (two, fer ter, much cloff fer ter, old man), 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:pg2306:9:72
# text = "Dat ain't all, honey, but 'twon't do fer ter give out too much cloff fer ter cut one pa'r pants," replied the old man sententiously.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Dat	Dat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
14	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	too	too	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	cloff	cloff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
25	pa'r	pa'r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	pants	pants	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
29	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	sententiously	sententiously	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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* | infinitive | two |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give out** *in a quote* | present | fer ter |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **cut** *in a quote* | past | much cloff fer ter | one pa'r pants |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pants=Product |
| 4 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the old man |  |  |  |  | sententiously *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: 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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