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title: Ef you wanter see yo' own sins, clean up a new groun'. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Ef you wanter see yo' own sins, clean up a new groun'. Who acts: Ef wanter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 15

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Ef you wanter see yo' own sins, clean up a new groun'.

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**Who acts:** Ef wanter · **What happens:** see, clean up · **To what, where:** yo own sins, new groun

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ef wanter), 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:pg2306:38:15
# text = Ef you wanter see yo' own sins, clean up a new groun'.
1	Ef	Ef	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	flat	_	_
3	wanter	wanter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sins	sin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	clean	clean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Ef wanter | yo own sins |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sin=Stimulus |
| 2 | **clean up** | infinitive | Ef wanter *not said here* | a new groun |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent groun=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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