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title: "'Tain't nuthin' but a box er money somebody done gone en lef' up ye… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Tain't nuthin' but a box er money somebody done gone en lef' up yer in de chink er de chimbly,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. Who acts: Tai nuthin. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 47

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"'Tain't nuthin' but a box er money somebody done gone en lef' up yer in de chink er de chimbly,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.

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**Who acts:** Tai nuthin · **What happens:** do, chink, say · **To what, where:** er, Brer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tai nuthin), 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:pg2306:13:47
# text = "'Tain't nuthin' but a box er money somebody done gone en lef' up yer in de chink er de chimbly,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Tai	Tai	X	FW	_	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	nuthin	nuthin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	conj	_	_
13	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
14	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	lef	lef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	up	up	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	yer	y	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	chink	chink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	de	de	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	chimbly	chimbly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
28	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **chink** *in a quote* | present | Tai nuthin | er |  |  |  | de chimbly | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location er=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Tai nuthin *not said here* | Brer |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic |

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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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