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title: You oughter come to my house night 'fo' las'. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: You oughter come to my house night 'fo' las'. Who acts: You. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, sentence 12

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You oughter come to my house night 'fo' las'.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** come

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. the Old Man's Troubles. 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:pg2306:66:12
# text = You oughter come to my house night 'fo' las'.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	oughter	oughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	las	la	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | You |  |  |  | night | for las | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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