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title: We ain't got no great doin's at our house, but I speck de ole 'oman… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: We ain't got no great doin's at our house, but I speck de ole 'oman en de chilluns kin sorter scramble roun' en git up sump'n fer ter stay yo' stummick.' Who acts: We, great doin, I, fer ter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 15

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We ain't got no great doin's at our house, but I speck de ole 'oman en de chilluns kin sorter scramble roun' en git up sump'n fer ter stay yo' stummick.'

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**Who acts:** We, great doin, I, fer ter · **What happens:** not get, be, speck, stay · **To what, where:** house, ole en chilluns, yo stummick

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, great doin, I, fer ter), 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:pg2306:4:15
# text = We ain't got no great doin's at our house, but I speck de ole 'oman en de chilluns kin sorter scramble roun' en git up sump'n fer ter stay yo' stummick.'
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|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	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	doin	doin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	speck	speck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	de	de	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
17	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	oman	oman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	flat:foreign	_	_
22	chilluns	chillun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
23	kin	kin	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	scramble	scramble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
28	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	sump'n	sump'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	amod	_	_
33	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
37	stummick	stummick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get** |  | We |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | no great doin |  |  | our house |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **speck** | present | I | de ole en chilluns |  |  |  | kin scramble roun | tree rules |
| 4 | **stay** | present | fer ter | yo stummick |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme stummick=Location |

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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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