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title: I ain't bin thoo de mill sence day 'fo' yistiddy, den dey ain't no m… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I ain't bin thoo de mill sence day 'fo' yistiddy, den dey ain't no mills in de lan'. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 14

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I ain't bin thoo de mill sence day 'fo' yistiddy, den dey ain't no mills in de lan'.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not bin · **To what, where:** thoo mill

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg2306:52:14
# text = I ain't bin thoo de mill sence day 'fo' yistiddy, den dey ain't no mills in de lan'.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ai	ai	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	bin	bin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	thoo	thoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
7	mill	mill	X	GW	_	4	obj	_	_
8	sence	sence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	13	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	yistiddy	yistiddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	mills	mill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	lan	lan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bin** |  | I | thoo mill |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mill=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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