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title: You er flippin' yo' sass at de wrong color. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: You er flippin' yo' sass at de wrong color. Who acts: You. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. As to Education, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. As to Education, sentence 5

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You er flippin' yo' sass at de wrong color.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** er · **To what, where:** flippin yo sass, de wrong color

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. As to Education. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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:pg2306:63:5
# text = You er flippin' yo' sass at de wrong color.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	er	er	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	flippin	flippin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	sass	sass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **er** | present | You | flippin yo sass |  | de wrong color |  |  | tree rules |

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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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