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title: "Dar ain't nuthin'," said the old man, shaking his head pensively, "… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Dar ain't nuthin'," said the old man, shaking his head pensively, "dat ain't got no change wrote on it. Who acts: old man, dat ai, change. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. As a Weather Prophet, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. As a Weather Prophet, sentence 2

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"Dar ain't nuthin'," said the old man, shaking his head pensively, "dat ain't got no change wrote on it.

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**Who acts:** old man, dat ai, change · **What happens:** say, shake, not get, write · **To what, where:** head, ai · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. As a Weather Prophet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, dat ai, change), 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:pg2306:65:2
# text = "Dar ain't nuthin'," said the old man, shaking his head pensively, "dat ain't got no change wrote on it.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Dar	Dar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	nuthin	nuthin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	pensively	pensively	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shake** | gerund | the old man *not said here* | man's head |  |  |  | pensively *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | past | dat ai |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **write** *in a quote* | past | no change |  |  | ai |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on it=Destination |

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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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