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title: "'Remus, I ain't got nobody fer ter look arter de place but you,' se… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Remus, I ain't got nobody fer ter look arter de place but you,' sez she, en den I up'n say, sez I: Who acts: I, nobody fer ter, Remus. 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 66

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"'Remus, I ain't got nobody fer ter look arter de place but you,' sez she, en den I up'n say, sez I:

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**Who acts:** I, nobody fer ter, Remus · **What happens:** not get, look, say, sez · **To what, where:** nobody fer ter, arter de place, dis, en den · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, nobody fer ter, Remus), 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:pg2306:46:66
# text = "'Remus, I ain't got nobody fer ter look arter de place but you,' sez she, en den I up'n say, sez I:
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	compound	_	_
10	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
13	arter	arter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
20	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	up'n	up'n	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	sez	sez	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	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* | present · passive | I | nobody fer ter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | nobody fer ter *not said here* | arter de place |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme place=Attribute |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Remus | dis |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | I | en den *not said here* |  |  |  | up'n *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sez** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | 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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