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title: Oh, you oughter drapt roun' 'bout dat time, Brer John Henry. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh, you oughter drapt roun' 'bout dat time, Brer John Henry. 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 20

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Oh, you oughter drapt roun' 'bout dat time, Brer John Henry.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** drapt · **To what, where:** roun

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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:pg2306:66:20
# text = Oh, you oughter drapt roun' 'bout dat time, Brer John Henry.
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	oughter	oughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	drapt	drapt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drapt** | present | you | roun |  |  | time |  | 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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