--- title: W'en you does dat, ef you ain't got yo' han's on a new-made nigger,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: W'en you does dat, ef you ain't got yo' han's on a new-made nigger, den my name ain't Remus, an' ef dat name's bin changed I ain't seen her abbertized." Who acts: W'en, you, bin, I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Race Improvement, with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/54/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [VIII. Race Improvement](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/54/) / 19 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Race Improvement, sentence 19 W'en you does dat, ef you ain't got yo' han's on a new-made nigger, den my name ain't Remus, an' ef dat name's bin changed I ain't seen her abbertized." **Who acts:** W'en, you, bin, I, my · **What happens:** do, not get, make, change, not see, name · **To what, where:** dat, yo, Remus This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Race Improvement. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (W'en, you, bin, I), 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:pg2306:54:19 # text = W'en you does dat, ef you ain't got yo' han's on a new-made nigger, den my name ain't Remus, an' ef dat name's bin changed I ain't seen her abbertized." 1 W'en W'en PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 1 flat _ _ 3 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 ef ef NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 ai be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 9 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 yo yo NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 13 han han NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 17 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 amod _ _ 20 nigger nigger NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 ai be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 26 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 Remus Remus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 31 ef ef NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 34 's 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 37 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 ai be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 39 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 36 ccomp _ _ 41 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 abbertized abbertized ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | W'en | dat | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dat=Eventuality | | 2 | **not** **get** | present · passive | you | yo | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yo=Stimulus | | 3 | **make** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **change** | past | a dat name's bin | Remus *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **see** | present · passive | I | | | | | abbertized *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **name** | | my | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/54/18/) - next →: [IX. in the Role of a Tartar, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/55/1/) - ↑ back to [VIII. 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