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title: You better come now ef you comin'-- Ole Satun is loose en a bummin'-… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: You better come now ef you comin'-- Ole Satun is loose en a bummin'-- De wheels er distruckshun is a hummin'-- Oh, come long, sinner, ef you comin'! Who acts: You, Ole, distruckshun. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Revival Hymn, with its dependency 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Revival Hymn, sentence 8

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You better come now ef you comin'-- Ole Satun is loose en a bummin'-- De wheels er distruckshun is a hummin'-- Oh, come long, sinner, ef you comin'!

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**Who acts:** You, Ole, distruckshun · **What happens:** come, comin, be · **To what, where:** loose en, hummin

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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 (You, Ole, distruckshun), 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:pg2306:39:8
# text = You better come now ef you comin'-- Ole Satun is loose en a bummin'-- De wheels er distruckshun is a hummin'-- Oh, come long, sinner, ef you comin'!
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	ef	ef	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	comin	comin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	Satun	Satun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bummin	bummin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
22	distruckshun	distruckshun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hummin	hummin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
31	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	sinner	sinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	comin	comin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | You |  |  |  | now | well *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **comin** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Ole | loose en |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | distruckshun | a hummin and sinner and ef comin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | infinitive | distruckshun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **comin** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | 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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