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title: Hit wuz a mighty good year, en de truck tu'n out monstus well, but b… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hit wuz a mighty good year, en de truck tu'n out monstus well, but bimeby, w'en de time come fer dividjun, hit come ter light dat ole Brer Buzzard ain't got nuthin'. Who acts: you, ole Buzzard ai. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets H
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 13

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Hit wuz a mighty good year, en de truck tu'n out monstus well, but bimeby, w'en de time come fer dividjun, hit come ter light dat ole Brer Buzzard ain't got nuthin'.

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**Who acts:** you, ole Buzzard ai · **What happens:** hit out, come, hit, not get · **To what, where:** wuz, fer dividjun, ter light, nuthin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ole Buzzard ai), 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:pg2306:24:13
# text = Hit wuz a mighty good year, en de truck tu'n out monstus well, but bimeby, w'en de time come fer dividjun, hit come ter light dat ole Brer Buzzard ain't got nuthin'.
1	Hit	hit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	compound	_	_
10	truck	truck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	tu'n	tu'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
13	monstus	monstus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	flat:foreign	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
23	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	dividjun	dividjun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
28	ter	ter	X	FW	_	29	compound	_	_
29	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
32	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	nuthin	nuthin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **hit out** | imperative | you *not said here* | wuz |  |  | time; year | en *obl*; well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | you *not said here* | fer dividjun |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dividjun=Theme |
| 3 | **hit** | past | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | infinitive | you *not said here* | ter light |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **get** | past | that ole Buzzard ai *not said here* | nuthin |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nuthin=Stimulus |

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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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