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title: Ef you'll clime up on my back," he continued, speaking softly, "I sp… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Ef you'll clime up on my back," he continued, speaking softly, "I speck I ain't too ole fer ter be yo' hoss fum yer ter de house. Who acts: you, Ef, I, ole yo hoss. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, with its dependency tre
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 73

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Ef you'll clime up on my back," he continued, speaking softly, "I speck I ain't too ole fer ter be yo' hoss fum yer ter de house.

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**Who acts:** you, Ef, I, ole yo hoss · **What happens:** clime, continue, speak, speck, be, fum · **To what, where:** ter yo, ter house · **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 (you, Ef, I, ole yo hoss), 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:pg2306:37:73
# text = Ef you'll clime up on my back," he continued, speaking softly, "I speck I ain't too ole fer ter be yo' hoss fum yer ter de house.
1	Ef	Ef	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	clime	clime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	speck	speck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
25	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
28	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
30	hoss	hoss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	fum	fum	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
32	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
33	ter	ter	X	FW	_	35	compound	_	_
34	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	flat:foreign	_	_
35	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clime** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **continue** *in a quote* | past | Ef on my back |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | gerund | Ef on my back *not said here* |  |  |  |  | softly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **speck** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | infinitive |  | ter yo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fum** | infinitive | ole yo hoss | yer's ter house |  |  |  |  | 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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