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title: No use for ter come a flingin' un yo' "can't's" in-- (Hey O! — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: No use for ter come a flingin' un yo' "can't's" in-- (Hey O! Who acts: use. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 51

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No use for ter come a flingin' un yo' "can't's" in-- (Hey O!

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**Who acts:** use · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** un yo

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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 (use), 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:pg2306:41:51
# text = No use for ter come a flingin' un yo' "can't's" in-- (Hey O!
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	flingin	flingin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Hey	hey	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
21	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | no use for ter | a flingin's un yo |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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