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title: "Honey, dey ain't been no wusser skeer'd beas' sence de worl' begin… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Honey, dey ain't been no wusser skeer'd beas' sence de worl' begin dan dish yer same Brer Rabbit. Who acts: Honey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 8

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"Honey, dey ain't been no wusser skeer'd beas' sence de worl' begin dan dish yer same Brer Rabbit.

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**Who acts:** Honey · **What happens:** not be, begin · **To what, where:** wusser skeer, dan dish

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Honey), 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:pg2306:19:8
# text = "Honey, dey ain't been no wusser skeer'd beas' sence de worl' begin dan dish yer same Brer Rabbit.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
9	wusser	wusser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	skeer	skeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
12	beas	bea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	sence	sence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	compound	_	_
16	worl	worl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	begin	begin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	dan	dan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
22	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | participle |  | no wusser skeer and beas's sence |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** *in a quote* | present | Honey | dan dish |  |  |  | yer's same Brer Rabbit *obl* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Eventuality |

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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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