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title: Ef dey ain't some quare gwines on 'roun' dis place I ain't name Remu… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Ef dey ain't some quare gwines on 'roun' dis place I ain't name Remus." Who acts: I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 4

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Ef dey ain't some quare gwines on 'roun' dis place I ain't name Remus."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not name · **To what, where:** Remus

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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), 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:pg2306:34:4
# text = Ef dey ain't some quare gwines on 'roun' dis place I ain't name Remus."
1	Ef	Ef	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	quare	quare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	gwines	gwine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	name	name	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **name** | present | I | Remus |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remus=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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