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title: I don't wanter tell you no story, en ef you keep shovin' me forrerd,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I don't wanter tell you no story, en ef you keep shovin' me forrerd, I mout git some er de facks mix up 'mong deyse'f. Who acts: I, story, er de. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 7

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I don't wanter tell you no story, en ef you keep shovin' me forrerd, I mout git some er de facks mix up 'mong deyse'f.

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**Who acts:** I, story, er de · **What happens:** not tell, keep, shovin, mout, fack, mix up · **To what, where:** you, me, git · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, story, er de), 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:pg2306:37:7
# text = I don't wanter tell you no story, en ef you keep shovin' me forrerd, I mout git some er de facks mix up 'mong deyse'f.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	wanter	wanter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
14	shovin	shovin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	forrerd	forrerd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	mout	mout	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
21	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
23	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	facks	fack	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
26	mix	mix	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	mong	mong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	deyse'f	deyse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **keep** | present | no story |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **shovin** | gerund | no story *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mout** | present | I | git |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fack** | present | some er de |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **mix up** | present | some er de *not said here* |  |  |  |  | mong deyse'f *vocative* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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