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title: Tain't likely dey'll pester mother ner sister; but, daddy, ef de wus… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Tain't likely dey'll pester mother ner sister; but, daddy, ef de wus come ter de wus, I speck you ter take keer un um,' sezee. Who acts: likely dey, daddy wus, I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 77

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Tain't likely dey'll pester mother ner sister; but, daddy, ef de wus come ter de wus, I speck you ter take keer un um,' sezee.

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**Who acts:** likely dey, daddy wus, I · **What happens:** not pester, come, speck, take · **To what, where:** ner sister, ter wus, you, keer un um

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (likely dey, daddy wus, 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:pg2306:46:77
# text = Tain't likely dey'll pester mother ner sister; but, daddy, ef de wus come ter de wus, I speck you ter take keer un um,' sezee.
1	Tai	Tai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
3	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	pester	pester	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	ner	ner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	daddy	daddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat:foreign	_	_
17	wus	wu	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	ter	ter	X	FW	_	21	compound	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	flat:foreign	_	_
21	wus	wus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	speck	speck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	ter	ter	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
28	keer	keer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	_
33	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **pester** | future | likely dey | ner sister |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sister=Experiencer |
| 2 | **come** | present | daddy wus | ter wus |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wus=Theme |
| 3 | **speck** | present | I | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive | I *not said here* | keer un um and sezee |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=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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