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title: Oh, you allers will be wrong Twel you choose ter belong Ter de Marst… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh, you allers will be wrong Twel you choose ter belong Ter de Marster w'at's a comin' in de mornin'! Who acts: you, Twel, w'at. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Camp-meeting Song *, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Camp-meeting Song \*, sentence 10

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Oh, you allers will be wrong Twel you choose ter belong Ter de Marster w'at's a comin' in de mornin'!

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**Who acts:** you, Twel, w'at · **What happens:** be, choose, belong · **To what, where:** ter, comin, de mornin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Camp-meeting Song \*. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Twel, w'at), 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:pg2306:40:10
# text = Oh, you allers will be wrong Twel you choose ter belong Ter de Marster w'at's a comin' in de mornin'!
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	allers	aller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
8	Twel	Twel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	choose	choose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Ter	Ter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	Marster	Marster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
16	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	comin	comin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	compound	_	_
23	mornin	mornin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | you |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **choose** | present | you | ter |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ter=Theme |
| 3 | **belong** | present | Twel | Ter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | w'at | a comin |  | de mornin |  |  | 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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