--- title: I bin livin' yer more'n seventy year, an' I year talk er niggers see… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: I bin livin' yer more'n seventy year, an' I year talk er niggers seein' ghos'es all times er night an' all times er day, but I ain't never seed none yit; an' deze yer flags an' Jacob's lathers, I ain't seed dem, nudder." Who acts: I, year, deze. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XIII. His Practical View of Things](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/) / 17 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 17 I bin livin' yer more'n seventy year, an' I year talk er niggers seein' ghos'es all times er night an' all times er day, but I ain't never seed none yit; an' deze yer flags an' Jacob's lathers, I ain't seed dem, nudder." **Who acts:** I, year, deze · **What happens:** bin, livin, year, talk, flag, not be · **To what, where:** yer, er niggers, lathers, seed dem This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. His Practical View of Things. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, year, deze), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:59:17 # text = I bin livin' yer more'n seventy year, an' I year talk er niggers seein' ghos'es all times er night an' all times er day, but I ain't never seed none yit; an' deze yer flags an' Jacob's lathers, I ain't seed dem, nudder." 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 livin livin VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 yer yer X FW Foreign=Yes 3 obj _ _ 6 more'n more'n CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 seventy seventy NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 er er NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 niggers nigger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 seein seein NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 ghos'es ghos'e NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 20 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 er e ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ _ 23 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 26 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 27 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 er er DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 ai be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 35 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 36 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 37 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 38 compound _ _ 38 yit yit NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ; ; PUNCT : _ 44 punct _ _ 40 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ _ 42 deze deze NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 43 yer y ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 44 amod _ _ 44 flags flag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 45 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ _ 47 Jacob Jacob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 48 's 's PART POS _ 47 case _ _ 49 lathers lather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 51 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 52 ai be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 55 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 53 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 55 advmod _ _ 54 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 compound _ _ 55 dem dem NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 57 nudder nudder NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 55 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 59 " " PUNCT '' _ 55 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bin** | present | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **livin** | gerund | I *not said here* | yer more'n seventy year | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **year** | | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **talk** | present | a year | er niggers and seein ghos'es | | | night; time | | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent nigger=Patient | | 5 | **flag** | | a deze | Jacob's lathers | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **is a** | present | I | seed dem and nudder | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/18/) - ↑ back to [XIII. 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