--- title: Ef you niggers don't watch, you'll sing anudder chune, Fer de sun'll… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Ef you niggers don't watch, you'll sing anudder chune, Fer de sun'll rise'n ketch you ef you don't be mighty soon; En de stars is gittin' paler, en de ole gray coon Is a settin' in de grape-vine a watchin' fer de moon. Who acts: Ef niggers, you, Fer sun, En stars. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Son --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/41/130/) [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/) / [III. Corn-shucking Song](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/41/) / 130 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 130 Ef you niggers don't watch, you'll sing anudder chune, Fer de sun'll rise'n ketch you ef you don't be mighty soon; En de stars is gittin' paler, en de ole gray coon Is a settin' in de grape-vine a watchin' fer de moon. **Who acts:** Ef niggers, you, Fer sun, En stars, en · **What happens:** not watch, sing, rise'n, ef, not be, be · **To what, where:** anudder chune, ketch ef, gittin, settin, de grape vine This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ef niggers, you, Fer sun, En stars), 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:pg2306:41:130 # text = Ef you niggers don't watch, you'll sing anudder chune, Fer de sun'll rise'n ketch you ef you don't be mighty soon; En de stars is gittin' paler, en de ole gray coon Is a settin' in de grape-vine a watchin' fer de moon. 1 Ef Ef PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 1 flat _ _ 3 niggers nigger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 11 anudder anudder NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 chune chune NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 Fer Fer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ _ 16 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 rise'n rise'n VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 19 ketch ketch NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 ef ef NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 23 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 24 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 cop _ _ 26 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 acl:relcl _ _ 27 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 29 En En PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 30 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 flat _ _ 31 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 gittin gittin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 paler pale ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 38 de de ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 ole ole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 gray gray NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 coon coon NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 42 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 settin settin NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ _ 46 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 47 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 48 grape grape NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 49 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 vine vine NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 51 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 watchin watchin NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ' 's PART POS _ 52 case _ _ 54 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 compound _ _ 55 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 appos _ _ 56 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **watch** | present · do-support | Ef niggers | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | future | you | anudder chune | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chune=Theme | | 3 | **rise'n** | future | Fer sun | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **ef** | | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **is** | present · do-support | you | ketch ef *not said here* | | | | mighty, soon *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | present | En stars | gittin and a settin | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | En stars *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **is a** | present | en de ole gray coon | a settin | | de grape vine fer moon | | | tree rules | 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 129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/41/129/) - next →: [sentence 131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/41/131/) - ↑ back to [III. 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