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title: W'en de nashuns er de earf is a stan'in all aroun, Who's a gwineter… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: W'en de nashuns er de earf is a stan'in all aroun, Who's a gwineter be choosen fer ter w'ar de glory-crown? Who acts: de earf. 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 5

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W'en de nashuns er de earf is a stan'in all aroun, Who's a gwineter be choosen fer ter w'ar de glory-crown?

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**Who acts:** de earf · **What happens:** be, choosen · **To what, where:** stan'in, aroun

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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 earf), 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:pg2306:39:5
# text = W'en de nashuns er de earf is a stan'in all aroun, Who's a gwineter be choosen fer ter w'ar de glory-crown?
1	W'en	W'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	nashuns	nashun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	compound	_	_
6	earf	earf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	stan'in	stan'in	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	aroun	aroun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	choosen	choosen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
19	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
20	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	w'ar	w'ar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | de earf | a stan'in |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **choosen** | present · passive |  | all aroun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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