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title: You ax me ter run home, Little childun-- Run home, dat sun done roll… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: You ax me ter run home, Little childun-- Run home, dat sun done roll-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer. Who acts: You, ter, I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, 1. a Plantation Chant, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, 1. a Plantation Chant, sentence 6

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You ax me ter run home, Little childun-- Run home, dat sun done roll-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer.

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**Who acts:** You, ter, I · **What happens:** ax, run, do, not wanter, stay · **To what, where:** me, Little childun, yer

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, 1. a Plantation Chant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, ter, I), 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:pg2306:42:6
# text = You ax me ter run home, Little childun-- Run home, dat sun done roll-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ax	ax	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	childun	childun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	home	home	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	wanter	wanter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
25	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
26	yer	yer	PRON	PRP	Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	no	no	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ax** | present | You | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | present | ter | Little childun |  |  |  | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **wanter** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **stay** | infinitive |  | yer |  |  |  | long *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme yer=Location |

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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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