--- title: Oh, you nee'nter be a stoppin' en a lookin'; Ef you fool wid ole Sat… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Oh, you nee'nter be a stoppin' en a lookin'; Ef you fool wid ole Satun you'll git took in; You'll hang on de aidge en get shook in, Ef you keep on a stoppin' en a lookin'. Who acts: you, nee'nter, Ef. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Revival Hymn, wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/39/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [I. Revival Hymn](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/39/) / 10 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Revival Hymn, sentence 10 Oh, you nee'nter be a stoppin' en a lookin'; Ef you fool wid ole Satun you'll git took in; You'll hang on de aidge en get shook in, Ef you keep on a stoppin' en a lookin'. **Who acts:** you, nee'nter, Ef · **What happens:** nee'nter, be, fool, take in, hang, get · **To what, where:** en, wid ole Satun, shook, de aidge en, Ef This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Revival Hymn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, nee'nter, Ef), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:39:10 # text = Oh, you nee'nter be a stoppin' en a lookin'; Ef you fool wid ole Satun you'll git took in; You'll hang on de aidge en get shook in, Ef you keep on a stoppin' en a lookin'. 1 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 nee'nter nee'nter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 stoppin stoppin NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ' 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 lookin lookin NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 Ef Ef PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 fool fool VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 wid wid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 ole ole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 Satun Satun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 git git NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 24 in in ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 hang hang VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 32 compound _ _ 31 aidge aidge NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 33 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 34 shook shook NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 in in ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 Ef Ef PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 stoppin stoppin NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ' 's PART POS _ 42 case _ _ 44 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 lookin lookin NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nee'nter** | | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | infinitive | nee'nter | a stoppin's en | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fool** | present | Ef | wid ole Satun | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satun=Patient | | 4 | **take in** | future | you | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hang** | future | You | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **get** | present | You *not said here* | shook | | de aidge en | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent shook=Theme on en=Source | | 7 | **keep** | present | you | Ef | | a stoppin's en | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on en=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/39/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/39/11/) - ↑ back to [I. 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