--- title: I ain't 'sputin' 'bout it, but I ain't seed um, an' I don't take no… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: I ain't 'sputin' 'bout it, but I ain't seed um, an' I don't take no chances deze days on dat w'at I don't see, an' dat w'at I sees I got ter 'zamine mighty close. Who acts: I, chances. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. His Practical View of Things, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/20/) [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/) / 20 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 20 I ain't 'sputin' 'bout it, but I ain't seed um, an' I don't take no chances deze days on dat w'at I don't see, an' dat w'at I sees I got ter 'zamine mighty close. **Who acts:** I, chances · **What happens:** not be, not take, day, not see, see, get · **To what, where:** seed um, dat w'at, zamine · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, chances), 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:pg2306:59:20 # text = I ain't 'sputin' 'bout it, but I ain't seed um, an' I don't take no chances deze days on dat w'at I don't see, an' dat w'at I sees I got ter 'zamine mighty close. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 ai be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 sputin sputin NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 bout bout ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 13 ai be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 14 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 15 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 22 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 advcl _ _ 24 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 27 det _ _ 25 chances chance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 deze deze NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 33 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 38 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 42 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 ccomp _ _ 44 ter ter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nmod:poss _ _ 45 ' 's PART POS _ 44 case _ SpaceAfter=No 46 zamine zamine NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 47 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | I | seed um | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **take** | present · do-support | I | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **day** | | chances | | | dat w'at | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **see** | present · do-support | I | dat w'at *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer w'at=Stimulus | | 5 | **see** | present | I | a dat w'at *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **get** | past | I | ter's zamine | | | | close *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer zamine=Stimulus | 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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/21/) - ↑ back to [XIII. 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