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title: I 'clar' ter grashus ef dat jug ain't a caution!" — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I 'clar' ter grashus ef dat jug ain't a caution!" Who acts: ter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 25

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I 'clar' ter grashus ef dat jug ain't a caution!"

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**Who acts:** ter · **What happens:** not caution

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ter), 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:pg2306:60:25
# text = I 'clar' ter grashus ef dat jug ain't a caution!"
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	clar	clar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	nsubj	_	_
6	grashus	grashus	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
7	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
8	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	jug	jug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	caution	caution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **caution** *speech: other* |  | ter and dat jug ai |  |  |  |  |  | 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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