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title: "Mars John ain't live long ez I is," said Uncle Remus, by way of com… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Mars John ain't live long ez I is," said Uncle Remus, by way of comment. " Who acts: Mars John, Uncle Remus. 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 41

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"Mars John ain't live long ez I is," said Uncle Remus, by way of comment. "

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**Who acts:** Mars John, Uncle Remus · **What happens:** not be, be, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Mars John, Uncle Remus), 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:pg2306:34:41
# text = "Mars John ain't live long ez I is," said Uncle Remus, by way of comment. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Vrnc|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
7	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	ez	ez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	comment	comment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | Mars John |  |  |  |  | live *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Uncle Remus *= remus* |  |  |  |  | ez, long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Uncle Remus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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