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title: Chris'mus doin's is outer date, en dey ain't got no bizness layin' r… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Chris'mus doin's is outer date, en dey ain't got no bizness layin' roun' loose. Who acts: Chris'mus doin, dey ai. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 5

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Chris'mus doin's is outer date, en dey ain't got no bizness layin' roun' loose.

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**Who acts:** Chris'mus doin, dey ai · **What happens:** be, not get · **To what, where:** outer date, bizness layin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chris'mus doin, dey ai), 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:pg2306:14:5
# text = Chris'mus doin's is outer date, en dey ain't got no bizness layin' roun' loose.
1	Chris'mus	Chris'mus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	doin	doin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
14	bizness	bizness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	layin	layin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	loose	loose	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	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** | present | Chris'mus doin | outer date |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **get** | past | dey ai | no bizness layin |  |  |  | loose *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer layin=Stimulus |

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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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