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title: "Come yer, son, whar dey ain't no folks an' lemme drap some Jawjy 'i… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Come yer, son, whar dey ain't no folks an' lemme drap some Jawjy 'intment in dem years er yone. Who acts: you, folks. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 26

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"Come yer, son, whar dey ain't no folks an' lemme drap some Jawjy 'intment in dem years er yone.

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**Who acts:** you, folks · **What happens:** come, not drap · **To what, where:** intment

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. in the Role of a Tartar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, folks), 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:pg2306:55:26
# text = "Come yer, son, whar dey ain't no folks an' lemme drap some Jawjy 'intment in dem years er yone.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	yer	yer	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	whar	whar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	lemme	lemme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:unmarked	_	_
16	drap	drap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
18	Jawjy	Jawjy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	'	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	intment	intment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	yone	yone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | son *vocative*; yer *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **drap** *in a quote* | present | no folks  a lemme | Jawjy's intment |  |  | in dem years  yone |  | 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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