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title: Dar ain't nothin dat ain't spotted befo' hit begins fer ter commence. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dar ain't nothin dat ain't spotted befo' hit begins fer ter commence. Who acts: Dar, fer ter. 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 clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. As a Weather Prophet, sentence 3

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Dar ain't nothin dat ain't spotted befo' hit begins fer ter commence.

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**Who acts:** Dar, fer ter · **What happens:** not be, not spot, hit, begin, commence

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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 (Dar, fer ter), 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:pg2306:65:3
# text = Dar ain't nothin dat ain't spotted befo' hit begins fer ter commence.
1	Dar	Dar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Vrnc|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	nothin	nothin	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	ai	ai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	spotted	spot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	befo	befo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	csubj:pass	_	_
12	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	commence	commence	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Dar |  |  |  |  | nothin *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **spot** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 3 | **hit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **begin** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **commence** | present | fer ter |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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