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title: "Go long, boss! w'at you speck I be doin' sailin' 'roun' ter dese ye… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Go long, boss! w'at you speck I be doin' sailin' 'roun' ter dese yer cullud picnics? Who acts: you, gentleman. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. a Case of Measles, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 7

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"Go long, boss! w'at you speck I be doin' sailin' 'roun' ter dese yer cullud picnics?

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**Who acts:** you, gentleman · **What happens:** go, speck, be · **To what, where:** boss, Go w'at, doin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. a Case of Measles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, gentleman), 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:pg2306:56:7
# text = "Go long, boss! w'at you speck I be doin' sailin' 'roun' ter dese yer cullud picnics?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	compound	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
7	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	speck	speck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	doin	doin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	sailin	sailin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	dese	dese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	yer	y	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
22	cullud	cullud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	picnics	picnic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | boss |  |  |  | long *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **speck** *in a quote* | present | you | Go w'at |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | a gentleman *= gentleman* | doin and sailin and roun ter dese and yer cullud picnics |  |  |  |  | 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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