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title: Nobody ain't never year w'at his name is, en ef dey did dey kep' de… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Nobody ain't never year w'at his name is, en ef dey did dey kep' de news mighty close fum me. Who acts: name, dey, man. 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 claus
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 6

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Nobody ain't never year w'at his name is, en ef dey did dey kep' de news mighty close fum me.

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**Who acts:** name, dey, man · **What happens:** not w'at, be, kep, fum, name · **To what, where:** en ef dey, me

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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: who acts (name, dey, man), 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:pg2306:32:6
# text = Nobody ain't never year w'at his name is, en ef dey did dey kep' de news mighty close fum me.
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	w'at	w'at	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	kep	kep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	compound	_	_
19	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	mighty	mighty	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	_
22	fum	fum	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **w'at** | past |  |  |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | man's name | en ef dey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **kep** | past · do-support | dey | en ef dey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fum** | infinitive | dey *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **name** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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