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title: "An' I ain't heppin fer ter berry nobody. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "An' I ain't heppin fer ter berry nobody. Who acts: Uncle Remus. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, sentence 8

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"An' I ain't heppin fer ter berry nobody.

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**Who acts:** Uncle Remus · **What happens:** not be · **To what, where:** heppin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle Remus), 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:pg2306:64:8
# text = "An' I ain't heppin fer ter berry nobody.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	heppin	heppin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
9	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | Uncle Remus *= remus* | a heppin |  |  |  |  | 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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