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title: De sun mus'n't set on yo' sorrer, Sin's ez sharp ez a bamboo-brier-… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De sun mus'n't set on yo' sorrer, Sin's ez sharp ez a bamboo-brier- Oh, Lord! fetch de mo'ners up higher! Who acts: De sun. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Revival Hymn, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Revival Hymn, sentence 4

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De sun mus'n't set on yo' sorrer, Sin's ez sharp ez a bamboo-brier- Oh, Lord! fetch de mo'ners up higher!

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**Who acts:** De sun · **What happens:** not set · **To what, where:** ez sharp Lord, yo

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Revival Hymn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De sun), 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:pg2306:39:4
# text = De sun mus'n't set on yo' sorrer, Sin's ez sharp ez a bamboo-brier- Oh, Lord! fetch de mo'ners up higher!
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	mus'	mus'	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	sorrer	sorrer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
11	Sin	Sin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	ez	ez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
14	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
15	ez	ez	ADV	FW	_	23	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	brier	brier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
25	fetch	fetch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	flat:foreign	_	_
27	mo'ners	mo'ner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	up	up	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **set** |  | De sun | Sin's ez sharp Lord |  | yo and sorrer |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on yo=Destination |

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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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