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title: "Miss Doshy ain't got no time fer ter set dar an' year de ole nigger… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Miss Doshy ain't got no time fer ter set dar an' year de ole nigger run on." Who acts: Doshy ai, fer ter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 44

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"Miss Doshy ain't got no time fer ter set dar an' year de ole nigger run on."

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**Who acts:** Doshy ai, fer ter · **What happens:** not get, set, run on · **To what, where:** dar

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Doshy ai, 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:pg2306:46:44
# text = "Miss Doshy ain't got no time fer ter set dar an' year de ole nigger run on."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Doshy	Doshy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
11	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	de	de	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | past | Doshy ai |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **set** *in a quote* | participle | no fer ter *not said here* | dar |  |  | year | de ole nigger | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient dar=Result |
| 3 | **run on** *in a quote* | present | no fer ter |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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