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title: Mars John an' Miss Sally ain't got nuthin' dat's too good fer me, an… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Mars John an' Miss Sally ain't got nuthin' dat's too good fer me, an' de fus news I know'd Miss Sally wuz a hollerin' fer Remus. Who acts: Miss Sally, I, Mars. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. the Florida Watermelon, with its dependency tree and the
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. the Florida Watermelon, sentence 8

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Mars John an' Miss Sally ain't got nuthin' dat's too good fer me, an' de fus news I know'd Miss Sally wuz a hollerin' fer Remus.

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**Who acts:** Miss Sally, I, Mars · **What happens:** not get, know, wuz · **To what, where:** fus news, fer

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. the Florida Watermelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miss Sally, I, Mars), 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:pg2306:61:8
# text = Mars John an' Miss Sally ain't got nuthin' dat's too good fer me, an' de fus news I know'd Miss Sally wuz a hollerin' fer Remus.
1	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
2	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
5	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	amod	_	_
10	nuthin	nuthin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
12	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	too	too	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	dep	_	_
22	fus	fus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
29	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	hollerin	hollerin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
34	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	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** **get** | present · passive | Miss Sally |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **know** | present | I | a fus news *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus |
| 3 | **wuz** | present | Mars and Miss Sally | a hollerin's fer |  |  |  |  | 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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