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title: Compare this with the story of the terrapin's contest with the bear,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Compare this with the story of the terrapin's contest with the bear, in which Miss Meadows's bed-cord is used instead of a vine-stem. Who acts: you, terrapin. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 45

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Compare this with the story of the terrapin's contest with the bear, in which Miss Meadows's bed-cord is used instead of a vine-stem.

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**Who acts:** you, terrapin · **What happens:** compare, use, contest · **To what, where:** this, bed cord

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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 (you, terrapin), 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:pg2306:1:45
# text = Compare this with the story of the terrapin's contest with the bear, in which Miss Meadows's bed-cord is used instead of a vine-stem.
1	Compare	compare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	terrapin	terrapin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	contest	contest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
17	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
18	Meadows	Meadows	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
20	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
25	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	30	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	vine	vine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compare** | imperative | you *not said here* | this |  |  |  | with the story of the terrapin's contest with the bear | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent this=Patient with story=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **use** | present · passive |  | Miss's bed cord |  |  |  | instead a vine stem | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **contest** |  | the terrapin |  |  |  |  | with the bear | nom contest «event transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |

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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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