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title: Ha'nts don't bodder longer hones' folks, but you better go 'roun' de… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Ha'nts don't bodder longer hones' folks, but you better go 'roun' de grave-yard. Who acts: Ha'nts, you. 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 62

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Ha'nts don't bodder longer hones' folks, but you better go 'roun' de grave-yard.

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**Who acts:** Ha'nts, you · **What happens:** not bother, go

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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 (Ha'nts, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2306:1629`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:38:62
# text = Ha'nts don't bodder longer hones' folks, but you better go 'roun' de grave-yard.
1	Ha'nts	ha'nt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	bodder	bother	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	longer	longer	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	hones	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	roun	around	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	de	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bother** | present · do-support | Ha'nts |  |  |  |  | longer hones folks | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | you |  |  |  |  | around the grave yard; well *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme around yard=Initial\_Location |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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