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title: Kaze ef dey is, I ain't got no time fer ter be tarryin' 'roun' yer.' — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Kaze ef dey is, I ain't got no time fer ter be tarryin' 'roun' yer.' A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 46

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Kaze ef dey is, I ain't got no time fer ter be tarryin' 'roun' yer.'

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**What happens:** be, not get · **To what, where:** Kaze ef dey, ter tarryin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2306:32:46
# text = Kaze ef dey is, I ain't got no time fer ter be tarryin' 'roun' yer.'
1	Kaze	Kaze	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	tarryin	tarryin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	yer	yer	PRON	PRP	Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Kaze ef dey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **get** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive |  | ter tarryin and roun |  |  |  |  | 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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