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title: "Better go down yer ter de calaboose, an' git some news fer ter prin… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Better go down yer ter de calaboose, an' git some news fer ter print," said Uncle Remus, with a touch of irony in his tone. " Who acts: Better, Uncle Remus, Remus. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, with its dependency tree and t
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 48

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"Better go down yer ter de calaboose, an' git some news fer ter print," said Uncle Remus, with a touch of irony in his tone. "

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**Who acts:** Better, Uncle Remus, Remus · **What happens:** go down, say, intonate · **To what, where:** ter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Better, Uncle Remus, Remus), 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:pg2306:60:48
# text = "Better go down yer ter de calaboose, an' git some news fer ter print," said Uncle Remus, with a touch of irony in his tone. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Better	Better	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	de	de	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	calaboose	calaboose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
14	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	print	print	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	irony	irony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** *in a quote* | infinitive | Better | yer's ter |  |  |  | de calaboose; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient ter=Extent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Uncle Remus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **intonate** |  | Remus |  |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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