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title: "Dey ain't none er you young w'ite men never had no 'casion fer ter… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Dey ain't none er you young w'ite men never had no 'casion fer ter strike up wid one er deze Mobile niggers?" asked Uncle Remus. "' Who acts: you, fer ter, Uncle Remus. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. the Fourth of July, with its dependency tree 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 9

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"Dey ain't none er you young w'ite men never had no 'casion fer ter strike up wid one er deze Mobile niggers?" asked Uncle Remus. "'

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**Who acts:** you, fer ter, Uncle Remus · **What happens:** not have, strike up, wi, ask · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. the Fourth of July. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fer ter, 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:pg2306:67:9
# text = "Dey ain't none er you young w'ite men never had no 'casion fer ter strike up wid one er deze Mobile niggers?" asked Uncle Remus. "'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Dey	Dey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
5	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	3	obj	_	_
6	er	er	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	w'ite	w'ite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	casion	casion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	strike	strike	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	deze	deze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	Mobile	mobile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	niggers	nigger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
28	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
29	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **strike up** *in a quote* | present | no fer ter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wi** *in a quote* | past | no fer ter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Uncle Remus |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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