--- title: "'Well, dey ain't p'intin' yo' way, sez I, 'an', fuddermo', ef you d… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'Well, dey ain't p'intin' yo' way, sez I, 'an', fuddermo', ef you don't bodder longer dem hogs dey ain't gwineter clime outer dat pen an' 'tack you, nudder,'" sez I. Who acts: dey ai, you, ai. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/60/64/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XIV. That Deceitful Jug](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/60/) / 64 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 64 "'Well, dey ain't p'intin' yo' way, sez I, 'an', fuddermo', ef you don't bodder longer dem hogs dey ain't gwineter clime outer dat pen an' 'tack you, nudder,'" sez I. **Who acts:** dey ai, you, ai · **What happens:** say, not bodder, pen, tack · **To what, where:** I, hogs dey, I. · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (dey ai, you, ai), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:60:64 # text = "'Well, dey ain't p'intin' yo' way, sez I, 'an', fuddermo', ef you don't bodder longer dem hogs dey ain't gwineter clime outer dat pen an' 'tack you, nudder,'" sez I. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Well well INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 ai ai NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 p'intin p'intin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 yo yo NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 14 sez say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 csubj _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ', ', PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 fuddermo fuddermo NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ', ', PART POS _ 20 dep _ _ 22 ef ef NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 25 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 bodder bodder VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl:relcl _ _ 27 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 26 advmod _ _ 28 dem dem NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 hogs hog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 compound _ _ 30 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 31 ai ai X FW Foreign=Yes 37 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 gwineter gwinet ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 37 nsubj _ _ 34 clime clime NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 35 outer outer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 pen pen NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 acl:relcl _ _ 38 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ _ 40 ' 's PART POS _ 39 case _ SpaceAfter=No 41 tack tack NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 appos _ _ 42 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 nudder nudder NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 48 sez say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 49 I. I. X FW Foreign=Yes 48 obj _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | dey ai and p'intin | I | | | | fuddermo ef *obl* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Topic | | 2 | **not** **bodder** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | hogs dey | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **pen** *in a quote* | | ai | hogs dey *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **tack** *in a quote* | | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | I. | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent i.=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/60/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/60/65/) - ↑ back to [XIV. 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