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title: You kin make yo' livin' dar w'en you can't make it no whars else. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: You kin make yo' livin' dar w'en you can't make it no whars else. Who acts: You, yo. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. the Emigrants, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 26

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You kin make yo' livin' dar w'en you can't make it no whars else.

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**Who acts:** You, yo · **What happens:** make, w'en, not make · **To what, where:** w'en

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. the Emigrants. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, 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:pg2306:57:26
# text = You kin make yo' livin' dar w'en you can't make it no whars else.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	kin	kin	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	livin	livin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	whars	whar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	else	else	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** |  | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **w'en** |  | yo |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **make** | can | you | w'en |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary whar=Product |

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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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