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title: Don't flop yo' wings w'en you laff, kaze den if you duz, sump'n 'ill… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Don't flop yo' wings w'en you laff, kaze den if you duz, sump'n 'ill drap fum up yer, en my gol'-mine won't do you no good, en needer will yone do me no good.' Who acts: yo wings, you, ill, gol. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 29

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Don't flop yo' wings w'en you laff, kaze den if you duz, sump'n 'ill drap fum up yer, en my gol'-mine won't do you no good, en needer will yone do me no good.'

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**Who acts:** yo wings, you, ill, gol · **What happens:** not flop, w'en, duz, drap, fum up, do · **To what, where:** you, good, me

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yo wings, you, ill, gol), 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:pg2306:24:29
# text = Don't flop yo' wings w'en you laff, kaze den if you duz, sump'n 'ill drap fum up yer, en my gol'-mine won't do you no good, en needer will yone do me no good.'
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	flop	flop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
4	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	w'en	w'en	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	laff	laff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	duz	duz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	sump'n	sump'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nsubj	_	_
20	drap	drap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	fum	fum	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	yer	y	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	gol	gol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
35	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	39	det	_	_
36	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	needer	needer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
40	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	yone	yone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl:relcl	_	_
43	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	iobj	_	_
44	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	45	det	_	_
45	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **flop** | infinitive · do-support | yo wings *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **w'en** | present | yo wings | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **duz** *a condition, not said to happen* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **drap** | present | ill |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fum up** | infinitive | ill *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | present · do-support | my gol | no good | me |  |  |  | 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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