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title: Hit'll pay you mo' dan politics, an' ef you stan's up like you ought… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hit'll pay you mo' dan politics, an' ef you stan's up like you oughter, hit'll las' longer dan a bone-fellum. Who acts: ef. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 13

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Hit'll pay you mo' dan politics, an' ef you stan's up like you oughter, hit'll las' longer dan a bone-fellum.

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**Who acts:** ef · **What happens:** pay, up, hit · **To what, where:** you, longer

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ef), 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:pg2306:62:13
# text = Hit'll pay you mo' dan politics, an' ef you stan's up like you oughter, hit'll las' longer dan a bone-fellum.
1	Hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	pay	pay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	dan	dan	X	FW	_	8	compound	_	_
8	politics	politics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	oughter	oughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	hit	hit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	las	la	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	obj	_	_
26	dan	dan	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	obj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	fellum	fellum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | future · infinitive |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient mo=Asset |
| 2 | **up** |  | a ef |  |  |  |  | like oughter | tree rules |
| 3 | **hit** | infinitive |  | longer |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent long=Patient dan=Result |

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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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