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title: Twix' de bug en de bee-martin 'tain't hard ter tell w'ich gwineter g… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Twix' de bug en de bee-martin 'tain't hard ter tell w'ich gwineter git kotch. Who acts: tai. 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 66

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Twix' de bug en de bee-martin 'tain't hard ter tell w'ich gwineter git kotch.

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**Who acts:** tai · **What happens:** not tell · **To what, where:** git kotch · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (tai), 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:pg2306:38:66
# text = Twix' de bug en de bee-martin 'tain't hard ter tell w'ich gwineter git kotch.
1	Twix	Twix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bug	bug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	compound	_	_
7	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	martin	martin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	tai	tai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
13	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	w'ich	w'ich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	kotch	kotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | present | tai | git kotch |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kotch=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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