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title: "Nothin', boss, 'ceppin I ain't gwineter hav' no nigger chillun a ho… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Nothin', boss, 'ceppin I ain't gwineter hav' no nigger chillun a hoopin' an' a hollerin' at me w'en I'm gwine long de streets." Who acts: Nothin boss, nigger chillun, matter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. As to Education, with its dependency t
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. As to Education, sentence 8

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"Nothin', boss, 'ceppin I ain't gwineter hav' no nigger chillun a hoopin' an' a hollerin' at me w'en I'm gwine long de streets."

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**Who acts:** Nothin boss, nigger chillun, matter · **What happens:** not be, have, w'en, be · **To what, where:** gwineter, gwine long de streets

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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 (Nothin boss, nigger chillun, matter), 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:pg2306:63:8
# text = "Nothin', boss, 'ceppin I ain't gwineter hav' no nigger chillun a hoopin' an' a hollerin' at me w'en I'm gwine long de streets."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nothin	Nothin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	ceppin	ceppin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	hav	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
15	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	chillun	chillun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hoopin	hoopin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hollerin	hollerin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
27	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
30	gwine	gwine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
31	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | Nothin boss and ceppin | gwineter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **w'en** *in a quote* |  | no nigger chillun |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the matter *= matter* | gwine long de streets |  |  |  |  | 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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