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title: I ain't got no time fer ter be settin' yer proppin' yo' eyeleds open." — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I ain't got no time fer ter be settin' yer proppin' yo' eyeleds open." Who acts: I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 38

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I ain't got no time fer ter be settin' yer proppin' yo' eyeleds open."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not get, be · **To what, where:** ter settin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg2306:26:38
# text = I ain't got no time fer ter be settin' yer proppin' yo' eyeleds open."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	settin	settin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	proppin	proppin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	eyeleds	eyeled	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive |  | ter settin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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