--- title: En dat w'at you better do, honey, kaze I see Miss Sally's shadder sa… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: En dat w'at you better do, honey, kaze I see Miss Sally's shadder sailin' backerds en forerds 'fo' de winder, en de fus' news you know she'll be spectin' un you." Who acts: you, I, en. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, en), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:25:41 # text = En dat w'at you better do, honey, kaze I see Miss Sally's shadder sailin' backerds en forerds 'fo' de winder, en de fus' news you know she'll be spectin' un you." 1 En En PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 dat dat X GW _ 1 flat _ _ 3 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 xcomp _ _ 6 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 kaze kaze NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 Sally Sally PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 shadder shadd ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 amod _ _ 17 sailin sailin NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 backerds backerd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 en en X FW Foreign=Yes 19 nmod _ _ 21 forerds forerd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 appos _ _ 22 ' 's PART POS _ 21 case _ SpaceAfter=No 23 fo for ADP IN Abbr=Yes 26 case _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 25 de de ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 winder winder NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 30 compound _ _ 30 fus fus NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 38 cop _ _ 38 spectin spectin NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | you | En w'at and honey *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent w'at=Eventuality | | 2 | **see** | present | I | En w'at and honey | | | | kaze *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sailin=Stimulus | | 3 | **know** | present | you | fus news *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | | 4 | **is a** | future | en | spectin | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/25/40/) - next →: [XXIII. 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