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title: "'You come ter my house termorrer ef yo' fokes ain't too sick, en I… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'You come ter my house termorrer ef yo' fokes ain't too sick, en I kin show you whar you kin git plenty beef mo' nicer dan dish yer,' sezee. Who acts: You, Fox, fokes, git. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, with its depen
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 16

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"'You come ter my house termorrer ef yo' fokes ain't too sick, en I kin show you whar you kin git plenty beef mo' nicer dan dish yer,' sezee.

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**Who acts:** You, Fox, fokes, git · **What happens:** come, kin, show, mo · **To what, where:** en, you, whar

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Fox, fokes, git), 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:pg2306:37:16
# text = "'You come ter my house termorrer ef yo' fokes ain't too sick, en I kin show you whar you kin git plenty beef mo' nicer dan dish yer,' 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	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	termorrer	termorrer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	fokes	foke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
13	ai	ai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	too	too	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	kin	kin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	whar	whar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	kin	kin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
26	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	beef	beef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	nicer	nice	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	amod	_	_
32	dan	dan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	yer	y	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
37	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **kin** *in a quote* | present | Fox | en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **show** *in a quote* | present | fokes |  | you |  |  | ter my ef yo | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 4 | **kin** *in a quote* | present | you | whar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **mo** *in a quote* |  | git |  |  |  |  |  | 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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