--- title: Hit's agin de mor'l law fer niggers fer ter eat w'en dey don't wuk,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Hit's agin de mor'l law fer niggers fer ter eat w'en dey don't wuk, an' w'en you see um 'pariently fattenin' on a'r, you k'n des bet dat ruinashun's gwine on some'rs. Who acts: fer ter, fer niggers, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fer ter, fer niggers, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:50:17 # text = Hit's agin de mor'l law fer niggers fer ter eat w'en dey don't wuk, an' w'en you see um 'pariently fattenin' on a'r, you k'n des bet dat ruinashun's gwine on some'rs. 1 Hit Hit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 agin agin NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 4 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 3 flat:foreign _ _ 5 mor'l mor'l NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 niggers nigger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 9 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 amod _ _ 10 ter ter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 15 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 wuk wuk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 24 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 pariently pariently ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 fattenin fattenin NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 a'r a'r NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 k'n k'n VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 33 des des NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 bet bet VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 35 dat dat X GW _ 34 obj _ _ 36 ruinashun ruinashun NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 37 's 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 gwine gwine NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 some'rs some'r NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | fer ter | w'en dey | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dey=Patient | | 2 | **not** **wuk** | present · do-support | fer niggers | Hit's agin and a w'en *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **see** | present | you | Hit's agin and a w'en | | a'r | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fattenin=Stimulus | | 4 | **k'n** | present | you | des | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **bet** | present | | dat | | some'rs | | | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dat=Recipient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/50/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/50/18/) - ↑ back to [Turnip Salad As a Text](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/50/)