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title: I ain't bin in de lot mo'n a minnit 'fo' I seed sump'n wuz wrong wid… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I ain't bin in de lot mo'n a minnit 'fo' I seed sump'n wuz wrong wid de hoss, and sho' nuff dar wuz his mane full er witch-stirrups." Who acts: I, sho. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 14

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I ain't bin in de lot mo'n a minnit 'fo' I seed sump'n wuz wrong wid de hoss, and sho' nuff dar wuz his mane full er witch-stirrups."

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**Who acts:** I, sho · **What happens:** not bin, wuz · **To what, where:** de lot

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sho), 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:pg2306:34:14
# text = I ain't bin in de lot mo'n a minnit 'fo' I seed sump'n wuz wrong wid de hoss, and sho' nuff dar wuz his mane full er witch-stirrups."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ai	ai	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	bin	bin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	mo'n	mo'n	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	minnit	minnit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	15	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
16	sump'n	sump'n	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	hoss	hoss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	sho	sho	NOUN	NN	_	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
26	nuff	nuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	mane	mane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
32	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	amod	_	_
33	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	stirrups	stirrup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bin** |  | I |  |  | de lot mo'n a minnit |  | for seed sump'n wuz and wrong de hoss | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in lot=Destination |
| 2 | **wuz** |  | sho |  |  |  |  |  | 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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