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title: I ain't larnt nuthin' in books, 'en yit I kin count all de money I g… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I ain't larnt nuthin' in books, 'en yit I kin count all de money I gits. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. As to Education, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. As to Education, sentence 21

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I ain't larnt nuthin' in books, 'en yit I kin count all de money I gits.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not learn, count, get · **To what, where:** nuthin, books, money

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. As to Education. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2306:2300`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:63:21
# text = I ain't larnt nuthin' in books, 'en yit I kin count all de money I gits.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	larnt	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	nuthin	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	obj	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
11	en	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	yit	yet	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	kin	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
17	de	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	gits	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **learn** | present · passive | I | nuthin |  | books |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 2 | **count** | can | I | all money |  |  | yet |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | present | I | all money *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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