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title: Wait ontwell you gits sorter seasoned like, an' den I'll hunt 'roun'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait ontwell you gits sorter seasoned like, an' den I'll hunt 'roun' in my cloze an' see ef I can't run out a thrip er two fer you. Who acts: you, I, see 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 tr
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 27

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Wait ontwell you gits sorter seasoned like, an' den I'll hunt 'roun' in my cloze an' see ef I can't run out a thrip er two fer you.

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**Who acts:** you, I, see ef · **What happens:** wait, season, hunt, see, not run out · **To what, where:** you, gits sorter, roun, er fer, cloze

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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 (you, I, see 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:pg2306:62:27
# text = Wait ontwell you gits sorter seasoned like, an' den I'll hunt 'roun' in my cloze an' see ef I can't run out a thrip er two fer you.
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	ontwell	ontwell	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
4	gits	git	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	seasoned	season	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	cloze	cloze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	compound	_	_
24	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	thrip	thrip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	flat	_	_
34	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | you |  |  |  | gits sorter and a den *obl*; ontwell *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **season** | participle |  | gits sorter and a den *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hunt** | future | I | roun |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roun=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **not** **run out** | can | a see ef | a er fer |  | my cloze |  | you *obl:unmarked* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fer=Theme in cloze=Trajectory |

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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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