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title: No use fer ter wait twel termorrer, De sun musn't set on yo' sorrer-… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: No use fer ter wait twel termorrer, De sun musn't set on yo' sorrer-- Sin's ez sharp ez a bamboo-brier, Ax de Lord fer ter fetch you up higher! Who acts: use fer ter, sun mus, ez, Ax fer ter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Revival Hymn, with its de
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Revival Hymn, sentence 12

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No use fer ter wait twel termorrer, De sun musn't set on yo' sorrer-- Sin's ez sharp ez a bamboo-brier, Ax de Lord fer ter fetch you up higher!

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**Who acts:** use fer ter, sun mus, ez, Ax fer ter · **What happens:** wait, not set, brier, fetch up · **To what, where:** twel termorrer, yo, you

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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 (use fer ter, sun mus, ez, Ax fer ter), 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:pg2306:39:12
# text = No use fer ter wait twel termorrer, De sun musn't set on yo' sorrer-- Sin's ez sharp ez a bamboo-brier, Ax de Lord fer ter fetch you up higher!
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
2	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	termorrer	termorrer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	mus	mus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	sorrer	sorrer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	Sin	Sin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	ez	ez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
22	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
23	ez	ez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	nsubj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	brier	brier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Ax	Ax	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
30	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
32	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	fetch	fetch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
37	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	!	!	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 | **wait** | present | no use fer ter | twel termorrer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **set** | infinitive | sun mus *not said here* |  |  | yo and sorrer |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on yo=Destination |
| 3 | **brier** |  | ez |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fetch up** | present | Ax fer ter | you |  |  |  | high *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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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