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title: Well, dey ain't no tellin' deze days whar a nigger's gwineter lan'." — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, dey ain't no tellin' deze days whar a nigger's gwineter lan'." Who acts: dey ai. 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 5

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Well, dey ain't no tellin' deze days whar a nigger's gwineter lan'."

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**Who acts:** dey ai · **What happens:** not whar · **To what, where:** gwineter lan

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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 (dey ai), 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:pg2306:62:5
# text = Well, dey ain't no tellin' deze days whar a nigger's gwineter lan'."
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
7	tellin	tellin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
9	deze	deze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	whar	whar	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	lan	lan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **whar** | present | dey ai | a nigger's gwineter lan |  |  |  |  | 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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