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title: Ef enny you boys git a invite you come, but ef you don't you better… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Ef enny you boys git a invite you come, but ef you don't you better stay 'way. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Turnip Salad As a Text, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Turnip Salad As a Text, sentence 19

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Ef enny you boys git a invite you come, but ef you don't you better stay 'way.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** come, not stay · **To what, where:** invite

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Turnip Salad As a Text. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg2306:50:19
# text = Ef enny you boys git a invite you come, but ef you don't you better stay 'way.
1	Ef	Ef	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	enny	enny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	invite	invite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
14	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	stay	stay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | you | a invite *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location invite=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **stay** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | 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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