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title: I ain't no han' at figgers, but I lay I k'n count up right yer in de… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I ain't no han' at figgers, but I lay I k'n count up right yer in de san' en number up how menny days hit'll be 'fo' you 'er cuppled on ter de chain- gang." Who acts: I, yer, menny days. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Turnip Salad As a Text, with its 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Turnip Salad As a Text, sentence 13

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I ain't no han' at figgers, but I lay I k'n count up right yer in de san' en number up how menny days hit'll be 'fo' you 'er cuppled on ter de chain- gang."

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**Who acts:** I, yer, menny days · **What happens:** lay, count up, number, hit, be, cuppl · **To what, where:** er, ter

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Turnip Salad As a Text. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, yer, menny days), 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:pg2306:50:13
# text = I ain't no han' at figgers, but I lay I k'n count up right yer in de san' en number up how menny days hit'll be 'fo' you 'er cuppled on ter de chain- gang."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	figgers	figger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
14	k'n	k'n	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	right	right	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	yer	y	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	nsubj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	san	san	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
23	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
26	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
27	menny	menny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	35	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
36	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	cuppled	cuppl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	parataxis	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
41	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	44	compound	_	_
42	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	_
44	gang	gang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **count up** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **number** |  | yer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hit** | past | menny days |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | future |  |  |  |  |  | for you | tree rules |
| 6 | **cuppl** | participle · passive |  | er |  | ter and de chain gang |  |  | 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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