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title: De raccoon he's a cu'us man, He never walk twel dark, En nuthin' nev… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De raccoon he's a cu'us man, He never walk twel dark, En nuthin' never 'sturbs his mine, Twel he hear ole Bringer bark. Who acts: De raccoon, raccoon, Twel. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, 2.a Plantation Serenade, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, 2.a Plantation Serenade, sentence 2

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De raccoon he's a cu'us man, He never walk twel dark, En nuthin' never 'sturbs his mine, Twel he hear ole Bringer bark.

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**Who acts:** De raccoon, raccoon, Twel · **What happens:** be, not walk, not sturb, hear · **To what, where:** cu'us man, twel, En nuthin, ole Bringer bark

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, 2.a Plantation Serenade. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De raccoon, raccoon, Twel), 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:pg2306:43:2
# text = De raccoon he's a cu'us man, He never walk twel dark, En nuthin' never 'sturbs his mine, Twel he hear ole Bringer bark.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	raccoon	raccoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	cu'us	cu'us	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	nuthin	nuthin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	sturbs	sturb	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	mine	mine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	Twel	Twel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
27	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	Bringer	Bringer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | De raccoon | a cu'us man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **walk** | infinitive | raccoon | twel |  |  |  | dark *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme twel=Trajectory |
| 3 | **not** **sturb** | present |  | En nuthin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hear** | infinitive | Twel | ole Bringer bark |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bark=Stimulus |

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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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