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title: Some niggers ain't gwine ter wuk nohow, an' hit's flingin' way time… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Some niggers ain't gwine ter wuk nohow, an' hit's flingin' way time fer ter set enny chain-gang traps fer ter ketch um." Who acts: flingin. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. a Confession, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. a Confession, sentence 4

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Some niggers ain't gwine ter wuk nohow, an' hit's flingin' way time fer ter set enny chain-gang traps fer ter ketch um."

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**Who acts:** flingin · **What happens:** set · **To what, where:** enny gang traps

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. a Confession. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flingin), 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:pg2306:51:4
# text = Some niggers ain't gwine ter wuk nohow, an' hit's flingin' way time fer ter set enny chain-gang traps fer ter ketch um."
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	niggers	nigger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	gwine	gwine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	ter	ter	X	FW	_	7	compound	_	_
7	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	nohow	nohow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	flingin	flingin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
21	enny	enny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
22	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	gang	gang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	traps	trap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
26	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
27	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | a hit's flingin | fer ketch um's enny gang traps |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient trap=Result |

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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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