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title: The struggle between the whale and tapir goes on until each thinks t… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: The struggle between the whale and tapir goes on until each thinks the tortoise is the strongest of animals. Who acts: struggle, each, tortoise. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 44

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The struggle between the whale and tapir goes on until each thinks the tortoise is the strongest of animals.

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**Who acts:** struggle, each, tortoise · **What happens:** go on, think, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (struggle, each, tortoise), 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:pg2306:1:44
# text = The struggle between the whale and tapir goes on until each thinks the tortoise is the strongest of animals.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	struggle	struggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	tapir	tapir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
12	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	ccomp	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | present | the struggle between the whale and tapir |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | each |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | the tortoise |  |  |  |  | of animals; strong *property* | 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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