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title: Hit's a blessin' de w'ite sow don't shake de plum-tree. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hit's a blessin' de w'ite sow don't shake de plum-tree. Who acts: w'ite sow. 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 17

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Hit's a blessin' de w'ite sow don't shake de plum-tree.

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**Who acts:** w'ite sow · **What happens:** be, not shake · **To what, where:** blessin, plum tree

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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 (w'ite sow), 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:pg2306:1585`): 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:pg2306:38:17
# text = Hit's a blessin' de w'ite sow don't shake de plum-tree.
1	Hit	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	blessin	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	de	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	w'ite	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sow	sow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
12	de	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	plum	plum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a blessin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **shake** | present · do-support | the w'ite sow | the plum tree |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tree=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:** 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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