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title: Hit ain't no use fer ter sing out chu'ch ter me, Brer Rastus. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hit ain't no use fer ter sing out chu'ch ter me, Brer Rastus. Who acts: you, fer ter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 27

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Hit ain't no use fer ter sing out chu'ch ter me, Brer Rastus.

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**Who acts:** you, fer ter · **What happens:** hit, not use, sing out, ter · **To what, where:** ai, me

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fer ter), 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:pg2306:48:27
# text = Hit ain't no use fer ter sing out chu'ch ter me, Brer Rastus.
1	Hit	hit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	chu'ch	chu'ch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	ter	ter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
15	Rastus	Rastus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | imperative | you *not said here* | ai |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent ai=Patient brer=Result |
| 2 | **not** **use** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **sing out** *speech: express* | present | fer ter |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ter** | infinitive | fer ter *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | 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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