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title: He ain't bin broozin' roun' all hours er de night en day. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He ain't bin broozin' roun' all hours er de night en day. Who acts: 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 42

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He ain't bin broozin' roun' all hours er de night en day.

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**Who acts:** Remus · **What happens:** not bin · **To what, where:** broozin

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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 (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:pg2306:34:42
# text = He ain't bin broozin' roun' all hours er de night en day.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|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	broozin	broozin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	er	er	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat:foreign	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	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** |  | Remus | broozin |  |  | hour |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent broozin=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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