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title: I bin mixin' up wid fokes now gwine on eighty year, en I ain't seed… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I bin mixin' up wid fokes now gwine on eighty year, en I ain't seed no tattler come ter no good een'. Who acts: I, wid fokes. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 19

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I bin mixin' up wid fokes now gwine on eighty year, en I ain't seed no tattler come ter no good een'.

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**Who acts:** I, wid fokes · **What happens:** bin up, come · **To what, where:** mixin, good een

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wid fokes), 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:pg2306:22:19
# text = I bin mixin' up wid fokes now gwine on eighty year, en I ain't seed no tattler come ter no good een'.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	mixin	mixin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
6	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fokes	foke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	eighty	eighty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
18	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	tattler	tattler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
22	ter	ter	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
24	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	een	een	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin up** | present | I | mixin |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mixin=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | present | wid fokes and gwine on eighty year and en | no good een |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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