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title: I ain't bin to Charlstun an' needer is I tuck in Savanny; but you co… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I ain't bin to Charlstun an' needer is I tuck in Savanny; but you couldn't rig up no game on me dat I wouldn't tumble on to it de minit I laid my eyeballs on you. Who acts: I, you, minit. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, wit
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 31

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I ain't bin to Charlstun an' needer is I tuck in Savanny; but you couldn't rig up no game on me dat I wouldn't tumble on to it de minit I laid my eyeballs on you.

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**Who acts:** I, you, minit · **What happens:** not bin, be, not rig up, not tumble on, lay · **To what, where:** Charlstun, needer, Savanny, game, eyeballs

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. in the Role of a Tartar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, minit), 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:pg2306:55:31
# text = I ain't bin to Charlstun an' needer is I tuck in Savanny; but you couldn't rig up no game on me dat I wouldn't tumble on to it de minit I laid my eyeballs on you.
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	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Charlstun	Charlstun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	needer	needer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	tuck	tuck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Savanny	Savanny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	rig	rig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
26	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	tumble	tumble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
34	de	de	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
35	minit	minit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	_
38	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	eyeballs	eyeball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	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 |  | Charlstun |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | I | a needer *not said here* |  | Savanny |  | tuck *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **rig up** | could | you | no game |  |  |  | on me | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **tumble on** | would | I |  |  | game |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **lay** | past | minit | my eyeballs |  |  |  | on you | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eyeball=Theme on you=Destination |

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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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