--- title: Dem Favers's wa'n't no 'count 'fo' de war, en dey wa'n't no 'count e… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Dem Favers's wa'n't no 'count 'fo' de war, en dey wa'n't no 'count endurin' er de war, en dey ain't no 'count atterwards, en w'iles my head's hot you ain't gwineter go mixin' up yo'se'f wid de riff-raff er creashun." Who acts: no, you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel C --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/30/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on H…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/30/) / 11 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 11 Dem Favers's wa'n't no 'count 'fo' de war, en dey wa'n't no 'count endurin' er de war, en dey ain't no 'count atterwards, en w'iles my head's hot you ain't gwineter go mixin' up yo'se'f wid de riff-raff er creashun." **Who acts:** no, you · **What happens:** not count, count, not go up · **To what, where:** endurin, atterwards, mixin This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (no, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:30:11 # text = Dem Favers's wa'n't no 'count 'fo' de war, en dey wa'n't no 'count endurin' er de war, en dey ain't no 'count atterwards, en w'iles my head's hot you ain't gwineter go mixin' up yo'se'f wid de riff-raff er creashun." 1 Dem Dem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 2 Favers Favers PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 4 wa' wa' PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 6 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 8 det _ _ 7 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 count count NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 9 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 fo for ADP IN Abbr=Yes 13 case _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 12 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 13 compound _ _ 13 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 17 wa' wa' INTJ UH _ 21 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 18 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 21 nsubj _ _ 20 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 appos _ _ 22 endurin endurin NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 er er X FW _ 26 compound _ _ 25 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 24 flat:foreign _ _ 26 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 ai ai NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 30 nmod _ _ 33 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 parataxis _ _ 35 atterwards atterward NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 w'iles w'ile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 39 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 41 's 's PART POS _ 40 case _ _ 42 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 acl:relcl _ _ 43 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 44 ai be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 45 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 47 advmod _ _ 46 gwineter gwineter NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 47 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 parataxis _ _ 48 mixin mixin NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ _ 50 up up ADP RP _ 47 compound:prt _ _ 51 yo'se'f yo'se'f ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 52 wid wid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 53 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 54 riff riff NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 55 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 54 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 raff raff NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 compound _ _ 57 er er ADV GW Typo=Yes 47 obl _ _ 58 creashun creashun X NN _ 57 goeswith _ SpaceAfter=No 59 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 60 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **count** | infinitive | no | endurin and er war and dey ai no | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent endurin=Theme | | 2 | **count** | infinitive | | atterwards and en w'iles | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent atterward=Theme | | 3 | **not** **go up** | present | you | mixin | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient mixin=Extent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/30/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/30/12/) - ↑ back to [XXVII. 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