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title: "'You needn't talk less you wanter,' sezee; 'I knows you er dar, en… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'You needn't talk less you wanter,' sezee; 'I knows you er dar, en I ain't keerin',' sezee. ' Who acts: You, Den. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 47

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"'You needn't talk less you wanter,' sezee; 'I knows you er dar, en I ain't keerin',' sezee. '

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**Who acts:** You, Den · **What happens:** not talk, wanter, know, not be · **To what, where:** you, en

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Den), 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:pg2306:10:47
# text = "'You needn't talk less you wanter,' sezee; 'I knows you er dar, en I ain't keerin',' sezee. '
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	need	need	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	wanter	wanter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	keerin	keerin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
28	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **talk** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wanter** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  | less *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** *in a quote* | present | Den | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | Den | en *not said here* |  |  |  | keerin *property* | 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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