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title: "Folks w'at's allers pesterin' people, en bodderin' 'longer dat w'at… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Folks w'at's allers pesterin' people, en bodderin' 'longer dat w'at ain't der'n, don't never come ter no good een'. Who acts: Folks. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 2

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"Folks w'at's allers pesterin' people, en bodderin' 'longer dat w'at ain't der'n, don't never come ter no good een'.

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**Who acts:** Folks · **What happens:** pester, bother, not be, not come · **To what, where:** people, der'n, good een

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Folks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2306:755`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:16:2
# text = "Folks w'at's allers pesterin' people, en bodderin' 'longer dat w'at ain't der'n, don't never come ter no good een'.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
2	Folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
3	w'at	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	allers	always	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	pesterin	pester	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	en	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	bodderin	bother	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
14	longer	along	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	dat	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obl	_	_
16	w'at	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	der'n	they	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
25	ter	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
27	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	een	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pester** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Folks | people |  |  |  | always *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer |
| 2 | **bother** *in a quote* | gerund | Folks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along dat | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | der'n *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | Folks |  |  |  | to no good een |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial\_Location |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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