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title: "Don't you come a tellin' me dat Miss Sally gun you dat," he exclaim… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Don't you come a tellin' me dat Miss Sally gun you dat," he exclaimed, "kaze she didn't. Who acts: you, man, gwineter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 20

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"Don't you come a tellin' me dat Miss Sally gun you dat," he exclaimed, "kaze she didn't.

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**Who acts:** you, man, gwineter · **What happens:** not come, dat, exclaim, not do · **To what, where:** tellin, Sally gun, kaze · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man, gwineter), 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:pg2306:30:20
# text = "Don't you come a tellin' me dat Miss Sally gun you dat," he exclaimed, "kaze she didn't.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tellin	tellin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	conj	_	_
10	dat	dat	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	dat	dat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | you | a tellin |  |  |  | dat Sally gun | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tellin=Theme |
| 2 | **dat** *in a quote* | present | you | Sally gun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | man | kaze |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent kaze=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | past | gwineter | kaze *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kaze=Eventuality |

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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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