--- title: You k'n play yo' pranks on deze yer w'ite fokes, but w'en you come a… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: You k'n play yo' pranks on deze yer w'ite fokes, but w'en you come a cuttin' up yo' capers roun me you 'll lan' right in de middle uv er spell er sickness--now you mine w'at I tell you. Who acts: You, middle uv er, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, middle uv er, I), 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:pg2306:61:2 # text = You k'n play yo' pranks on deze yer w'ite fokes, but w'en you come a cuttin' up yo' capers roun me you 'll lan' right in de middle uv er spell er sickness--now you mine w'at I tell you. 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 k'n k'n CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 play play VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 yo yo NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 pranks prank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 deze deze NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 yer y ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 amod _ _ 10 w'ite w'ite NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 fokes foke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 cuttin cuttin NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 21 yo yo NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ' 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 capers caper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 24 roun roun X FW Foreign=Yes 23 conj _ _ 25 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 lan lan NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 right right ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 33 middle middle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 uv ultra-violet NOUN NN Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 er er NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 spell spell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 37 er e ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 38 amod _ _ 38 sickness sickness NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 -- -- PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 43 advmod _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 43 compound _ _ 42 mine my PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod _ _ 43 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 44 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 acl:relcl _ _ 46 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 45 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | infinitive | You | yo pranks | | deze and yer w'ite fokes | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prank=Theme | | 2 | **come up** | present | you | w'en | | | | yo's capers *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cuttin=Theme | | 3 | **lan** | future | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **spell** | present | middle uv er | er sickness | | | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent sickness=Theme | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | I | you w'at *not said here* | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | 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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/61/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/61/3/) - ↑ back to [XV. the Florida Watermelon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/61/)