--- title: You k'n go roun' yer an' sass deze w'ite people, an' maybe dey'll st… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: You k'n go roun' yer an' sass deze w'ite people, an' maybe dey'll stan' it, but w'en you come a-slingin' yo' jaw at a man w'at wuz gray w'en de fahmin' days gin out, you better go an' git yo' hide greased." Who acts: You, dey, days, git yo. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by J --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/6/) [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/) / [XVII. As to Education](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/) / 6 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. As to Education, sentence 6 You k'n go roun' yer an' sass deze w'ite people, an' maybe dey'll stan' it, but w'en you come a-slingin' yo' jaw at a man w'at wuz gray w'en de fahmin' days gin out, you better go an' git yo' hide greased." **Who acts:** You, dey, days, git yo · **What happens:** go, stan, come, gin out, grease · **To what, where:** roun, w'en, gray w'en 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, dey, days, git yo), 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:pg2306:63:6 # text = You k'n go roun' yer an' sass deze w'ite people, an' maybe dey'll stan' it, but w'en you come a-slingin' yo' jaw at a man w'at wuz gray w'en de fahmin' days gin out, you better go an' git yo' hide greased." 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 k'n k'n CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 yer yer PRON PRP Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 9 sass sass NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 deze deze NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 w'ite w'ite NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 16 maybe maybe ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 stan stan VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 slingin slingin NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 31 yo yo NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 jaw jaw NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 36 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 gray gray NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 41 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 40 flat:foreign _ _ 42 fahmin fahmin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ' 's PART POS _ 42 case _ _ 44 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nsubj _ _ 45 gin gin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 46 out out ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 48 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ _ 49 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 48 xcomp _ _ 50 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 conj _ _ 51 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 57 det _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 57 punct _ _ 53 git git NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 compound _ _ 54 yo yo NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 57 punct _ _ 56 hide hide NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ _ 57 greased grease VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 59 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | infinitive | You | roun | | | | yer *obl:unmarked* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location roun=Theme | | 2 | **stan** | future | dey | roun | | | | maybe *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **come** | present | you | w'en | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jaw=Theme | | 4 | **gin out** | present | fahmin's days | | | a gray w'en | | | tree rules | | 5 | **go** | infinitive | you | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **grease** | past | git yo | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | 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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/7/) - ↑ back to [XVII. 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