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title: "'You run 'long home, en git on de bed, en make like you dead, en do… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'You run 'long home, en git on de bed, en make like you dead, en don't you say nothin' twel Brer Rabbit come en put his han's onter you,' sez Brer Wolf, sezee, 'en ef we don't git 'im fer supper, Joe's dead en Sal's a widder,' sezee. Who acts: You, en, en ef, dead en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, Hi
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 22

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"'You run 'long home, en git on de bed, en make like you dead, en don't you say nothin' twel Brer Rabbit come en put his han's onter you,' sez Brer Wolf, sezee, 'en ef we don't git 'im fer supper, Joe's dead en Sal's a widder,' sezee.

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**Who acts:** You, en, en ef, dead en · **What happens:** run, make, not say, come, put, say · **To what, where:** long home, nothin, onter, Brer, widder · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, en, en ef, dead 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:pg2306:14:22
# text = "'You run 'long home, en git on de bed, en make like you dead, en don't you say nothin' twel Brer Rabbit come en put his han's onter you,' sez Brer Wolf, sezee, 'en ef we don't git 'im fer supper, Joe's dead en Sal's a widder,' sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	compound	_	_
13	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
22	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
26	nothin	nothin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
28	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
30	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	_
32	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	obl	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	onter	onter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
38	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
41	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
42	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
43	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
47	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
50	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
51	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	53	advmod	_	_
53	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
54	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	im	im	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	57	dep	_	_
56	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	57	amod	_	_
57	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
59	Joe	Joe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	's	's	PART	POS	_	59	case	_	_
61	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	nsubj	_	_
63	Sal	Sal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	66	cop	_	_
65	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	widder	widder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	69	punct	_	_
69	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** *in a quote* | present | You | long home and en |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | like you; dead *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | nothin and twel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **put** *in a quote* | past | en | Brer's han's onter |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent onter=Asset you=Goal |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* | Brer |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic |
| 7 | **not** **git** *in a quote* | present · do-support | en ef |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Joe's dead en | a widder and sezee |  |  |  |  | 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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