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title: Dey ain't no ole nigger my age an' size dat's had no rattliner time… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dey ain't no ole nigger my age an' size dat's had no rattliner time dan I is." Who acts: size dat, I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. a Case of Measles, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 5

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Dey ain't no ole nigger my age an' size dat's had no rattliner time dan I is."

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**Who acts:** size dat, I · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** rattliner time dan

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. a Case of Measles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (size dat, 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:pg2306:56:5
# text = Dey ain't no ole nigger my age an' size dat's had no rattliner time dan I is."
1	Dey	Dey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
5	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
11	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
16	rattliner	rattliner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	dan	dan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | a size dat | no rattliner time dan |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dan=Patient |
| 2 | **be** | present | I | no rattliner time dan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dan=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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