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title: Rails split 'fo' bre'kfus'll season de dinner. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Rails split 'fo' bre'kfus'll season de dinner. Who acts: Rails. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 13

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Rails split 'fo' bre'kfus'll season de dinner.

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**Who acts:** Rails · **What happens:** split

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rails), 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:pg2306:38:13
# text = Rails split 'fo' bre'kfus'll season de dinner.
1	Rails	rail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	bre'kfus	bre'kfus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **split** | past | Rails |  |  |  |  | for de dinner | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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