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title: You better go long an' git yo' kyarpet-sack and skip de town. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: You better go long an' git yo' kyarpet-sack and skip de town. Who acts: You, git yo. 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 36

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You better go long an' git yo' kyarpet-sack and skip de town.

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**Who acts:** You, git yo · **What happens:** go, sack, skip · **To what, where:** de town

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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, git yo), 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:pg2306:55:36
# text = You better go long an' git yo' kyarpet-sack and skip de town.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
10	kyarpet	kyarpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	skip	skip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	compound	_	_
16	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | You |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sack** |  | git yo |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **skip** | present | You *not said here* | de town |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Agent |

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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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