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title: Dar now! w'at I bin sayin'? — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dar now! w'at I bin sayin'? Who acts: I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 6

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Dar now! w'at I bin sayin'?

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** bin · **To what, where:** sayin

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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 (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:pg2306:30:6
# text = Dar now! w'at I bin sayin'?
1	Dar	Dar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
4	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	sayin	sayin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present | I | sayin |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sayin=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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