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title: Ef you don't take off dat hat en tell me howdy, I'm gwine ter bus' y… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Ef you don't take off dat hat en tell me howdy, I'm gwine ter bus' you wide open,' sezee. Who acts: Ef, I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 19

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Ef you don't take off dat hat en tell me howdy, I'm gwine ter bus' you wide open,' sezee.

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**Who acts:** Ef, I · **What happens:** not take off, tell, be · **To what, where:** hat en, howdy, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ef, 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:pg2306:5:19
# text = Ef you don't take off dat hat en tell me howdy, I'm gwine ter bus' you wide open,' sezee.
1	Ef	Ef	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	howdy	howdy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	gwine	gwine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	advcl	_	_
17	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	compound	_	_
18	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
25	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **take off** | present · do-support | Ef | hat en |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Ef *not said here* | howdy | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient howdy=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | gwine *property* | 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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