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title: Ef you ain't got no money fer ter walk back wid, you better des b'il… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Ef you ain't got no money fer ter walk back wid, you better des b'il' yo' nes' right here. Who acts: Ef, fer ter, b'il. 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 29

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Ef you ain't got no money fer ter walk back wid, you better des b'il' yo' nes' right here.

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**Who acts:** Ef, fer ter, b'il · **What happens:** not get, walk back, ne · **To what, where:** money

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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 (Ef, fer ter, b'il), 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:pg2306:57:29
# text = Ef you ain't got no money fer ter walk back wid, you better des b'il' yo' nes' right here.
1	Ef	Ef	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
16	des	des	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	b'il	b'il	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	nes	ne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	right	right	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get** | present | Ef | no money |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus |
| 2 | **walk back** | infinitive | fer ter | no money *not said here* |  |  |  | wid *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme money=Trajectory |
| 3 | **ne** |  | des b'il |  |  |  |  |  | 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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