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title: He ain't bin dar long, twel sho' enuff, yer come Brer Fox thoo de wo… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He ain't bin dar long, twel sho' enuff, yer come Brer Fox thoo de woods, singing like a nigger at a frolic. Who acts: Fox, yer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 9

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He ain't bin dar long, twel sho' enuff, yer come Brer Fox thoo de woods, singing like a nigger at a frolic.

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**Who acts:** Fox, yer · **What happens:** not bin, come, sing · **To what, where:** dar, Brer, frolic

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, yer), 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:pg2306:18:9
# text = He ain't bin dar long, twel sho' enuff, yer come Brer Fox thoo de woods, singing like a nigger at a frolic.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ai	ai	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	bin	bin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	sho	sho	NOUN	NN	_	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	enuff	enuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	yer	yer	PRON	PRP	Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
16	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	thoo	thoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	frolic	frolic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bin** |  | Fox | dar |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dar=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | present | yer | Brer |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | yer *not said here* |  |  | a frolic |  | like a nigger | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at frolic=Location |

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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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