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title: G'long, chile--jine yo' s'ciety an' be good ter yo'se'f. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: G'long, chile--jine yo' s'ciety an' be good ter yo'se'f. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, sentence 20

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G'long, chile--jine yo' s'ciety an' be good ter yo'se'f.

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** good ter yo'se'f

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2306:64:20
# text = G'long, chile--jine yo' s'ciety an' be good ter yo'se'f.
1	G'long	G'long	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	chile	chile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	jine	jine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	s'ciety	s'ciety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	yo'se'f	yo'se'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | infinitive |  | a good ter yo'se'f |  |  |  |  | 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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