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title: I don't mine fightin', Brer Coon, no mo' dan you duz,' sezee, 'but I… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I don't mine fightin', Brer Coon, no mo' dan you duz,' sezee, 'but I declar' ter grashus ef I kin stan' ticklin'. Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 39

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I don't mine fightin', Brer Coon, no mo' dan you duz,' sezee, 'but I declar' ter grashus ef I kin stan' ticklin'.

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** not mine, duz, ef, kin · **To what, where:** Brer, dan, stan

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace. 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), 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:pg2306:6:39
# text = I don't mine fightin', Brer Coon, no mo' dan you duz,' sezee, 'but I declar' ter grashus ef I kin stan' ticklin'.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	mine	mine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	fightin	fightin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	',	',	PART	POS	_	5	dep	_	_
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	Coon	Coon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	dan	dan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	duz	duz	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
23	declar	declar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
25	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	grashus	grashus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	kin	kin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
32	ticklin	ticklin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **mine** | present · do-support | I | Brer  fightin |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brer=Theme |
| 2 | **duz** | present | you | no mo's dan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ef** |  | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **kin** | present | I | stan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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