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title: "I ain't takin' no chances 'bout vittles. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "I ain't takin' no chances 'bout vittles. Who acts: holler'n, takin. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Turnip Salad As a Text, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Turnip Salad As a Text, sentence 15

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"I ain't takin' no chances 'bout vittles.

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**Who acts:** holler'n, takin · **What happens:** not be, vittle · **To what, where:** takin

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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 (holler'n, takin), 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:pg2306:50:15
# text = "I ain't takin' no chances 'bout vittles.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	takin	takin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	chances	chance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	'	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	vittles	vittle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | De ole man's holler'n  sho *= holler'n* | takin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **vittle** *in a quote* | present | takin |  |  |  |  |  | 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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