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title: Po' fokes better be fixin' up for Chris'mus now w'ile rashuns is che… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Po' fokes better be fixin' up for Chris'mus now w'ile rashuns is cheap. Who acts: Po. 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 36

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Po' fokes better be fixin' up for Chris'mus now w'ile rashuns is cheap.

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**Who acts:** Po · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** better fixin

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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 (Po), 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:pg2306:60:36
# text = Po' fokes better be fixin' up for Chris'mus now w'ile rashuns is cheap.
1	Po	po	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	fokes	foke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	fixin	fixin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Chris'mus	Chris'mus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
12	w'ile	w'ile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	rashuns	rashun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	cheap	cheap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | infinitive |  | better fixin |  |  |  | for Chris'mus | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Po  w'ile rashuns and fokes |  |  |  |  | cheap *property* | 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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