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title: Rain er shine, hot er col', strike up wid ole Brer Tarrypin w'en you… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Rain er shine, hot er col', strike up wid ole Brer Tarrypin w'en you will en w'ilst you may, en whar you fine 'im, dar you'll fine his shanty. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, with its dependency tr
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 8

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Rain er shine, hot er col', strike up wid ole Brer Tarrypin w'en you will en w'ilst you may, en whar you fine 'im, dar you'll fine his shanty.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** strike up, fine · **To what, where:** Rain, im, shanty

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2306:627`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:13:8
# text = Rain er shine, hot er col', strike up wid ole Brer Tarrypin w'en you will en w'ilst you may, en whar you fine 'im, dar you'll fine his shanty.
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	er	er	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	shine	shine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
6	er	er	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	col	col	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	',	',	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	strike	strike	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	wid	wid	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	w'en	w'en	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
18	en	en	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	w'ilst	w'ilst	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
23	en	en	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
24	whar	whar	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	fine	fine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
28	im	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
30	dar	dar	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	fine	fine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	shanty	shanty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike up** | imperative | you *not said here* | Rain er shine |  |  |  | wid ole Brer Tarrypin | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fine** | present | you |  | im *= he* |  |  | whar *property* | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **fine** | future | you | Tarrypin's shanty |  |  |  | dar *property* | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shanty=Recipient |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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