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title: You ain't bin in dar long nuff fer ter go 'roun' takin' up conterbut… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: You ain't bin in dar long nuff fer ter go 'roun' takin' up conterbutions. Who acts: You. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 26

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You ain't bin in dar long nuff fer ter go 'roun' takin' up conterbutions.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** not bin, go up · **To what, where:** dar, roun takin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg2306:62:26
# text = You ain't bin in dar long nuff fer ter go 'roun' takin' up conterbutions.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ai	ai	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	bin	bin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	nuff	nuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	takin	takin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
18	conterbutions	conterbution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bin** |  | You |  |  | dar and long nuff fer ter |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in dar=Destination |
| 2 | **go up** | infinitive |  | roun takin |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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