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title: Rain-crow don't sing no chune, but you k'n 'pen' on 'im. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Rain-crow don't sing no chune, but you k'n 'pen' on 'im. Who acts: Rain crow, you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 49

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Rain-crow don't sing no chune, but you k'n 'pen' on 'im.

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**Who acts:** Rain crow, you · **What happens:** not sing, k'n · **To what, where:** chune, im

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rain crow, you), 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:pg2306:38:49
# text = Rain-crow don't sing no chune, but you k'n 'pen' on 'im.
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	chune	chune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	k'n	k'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	im	im	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sing** *speech: express* | present · do-support | Rain crow | no chune |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chune=Theme |
| 2 | **k'n** |  | you |  |  | im |  |  | 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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