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title: I bin trompin' 'roun' in de lowgroun's now gwine on seventy-fi' year… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I bin trompin' 'roun' in de lowgroun's now gwine on seventy-fi' year, but I ain't see no sich times ez dat w'at I done spe'unst now. 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 pragm
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 16

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I bin trompin' 'roun' in de lowgroun's now gwine on seventy-fi' year, but I ain't see no sich times ez dat w'at I done spe'unst now.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** bin, not see, do · **To what, where:** trompin, ez dat w'at

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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:pg2306:52:16
# text = I bin trompin' 'roun' in de lowgroun's now gwine on seventy-fi' year, but I ain't see no sich times ez dat w'at I done spe'unst now.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	trompin	trompin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	lowgroun	lowgroun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	seventy	seventy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	fi	fi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	ai	ai	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
27	sich	sich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	ez	ez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	done	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	spe'unst	spe'unst	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present | I | trompin |  |  |  | roun in de lowgroun's gwine on seventy fi  year *obl* | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent trompin=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **see** |  | I |  |  |  | time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **do** | past | I | ez dat w'at *not said here* |  |  | now |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent w'at=Eventuality |

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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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