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title: You'll be slippin' round arter hours some time er nudder, an you'll… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: You'll be slippin' round arter hours some time er nudder, an you'll slip bodaciously inter de calaboose. 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 8

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You'll be slippin' round arter hours some time er nudder, an you'll slip bodaciously inter de calaboose.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** be, slip · **To what, where:** inter de calaboose

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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:pg2306:66:8
# text = You'll be slippin' round arter hours some time er nudder, an you'll slip bodaciously inter de calaboose.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	slippin	slippin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	round	round	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	arter	arter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	nudder	nudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
18	bodaciously	bodaciously	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	inter	int	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
20	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	calaboose	calaboose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | You |  |  |  |  | slippin *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **slip** | future | you | inter de calaboose |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent calaboose=Patient |

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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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