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title: Simmons ain't good twel dey 'er fros'-bit. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Simmons ain't good twel dey 'er fros'-bit. 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 71

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Simmons ain't good twel dey 'er fros'-bit.

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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: 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:pg2306:38:71
# text = Simmons ain't good twel dey 'er fros'-bit.
1	Simmons	Simmons	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	fros	fro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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