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title: You oughter seed dat toof, boss. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: You oughter seed dat toof, boss. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 39

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You oughter seed dat toof, boss.

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2306:52:39
# text = You oughter seed dat toof, boss.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	oughter	ought	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
3	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	toof	toof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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