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title: You gutter travel wid a circus 'fo' you gits away wid me. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: You gutter travel wid a circus 'fo' you gits away wid me. Who acts: You, travel. 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 35

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You gutter travel wid a circus 'fo' you gits away wid me.

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**Who acts:** You, travel · **What happens:** gutter, wi · **To what, where:** circus, me

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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, travel), 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:pg2306:55:35
# text = You gutter travel wid a circus 'fo' you gits away wid me.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gutter	gutter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	travel	travel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	circus	circus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	13	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	gits	git	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gutter** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wi** | past | travel | a circus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wi** | past | you | me |  |  |  | away *property* | 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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