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title: De song er salvashun is a mighty sweet song, En de Pairidise win' bl… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De song er salvashun is a mighty sweet song, En de Pairidise win' blow fur en blow strong, En Aberham's bosom, hit's saft en hit's wide, En right dar's de place whar de sinners oughter hide! Who acts: song er salvashun, En, en hit, En Aberham. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» b
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Revival Hymn, sentence 9

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De song er salvashun is a mighty sweet song, En de Pairidise win' blow fur en blow strong, En Aberham's bosom, hit's saft en hit's wide, En right dar's de place whar de sinners oughter hide!

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**Who acts:** song er salvashun, En, en hit, En Aberham · **What happens:** be, win, blow, whar, bosom · **To what, where:** mighty sweet song, fur

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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 (song er salvashun, En, en hit, En Aberham), 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:pg2306:39:9
# text = De song er salvashun is a mighty sweet song, En de Pairidise win' blow fur en blow strong, En Aberham's bosom, hit's saft en hit's wide, En right dar's de place whar de sinners oughter hide!
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	salvashun	salvashun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	Pairidise	Pairidise	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
14	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	en	en	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Aberham	Aberham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
27	hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	saft	saft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
30	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
36	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	's	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	whar	whar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
42	de	de	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	sinners	sinner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
44	oughter	ought	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	45	amod	_	_
45	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | song er salvashun | a mighty sweet song and En Aberham's bosom |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **win** | present | En |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **blow** | infinitive | En *not said here* | fur |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent fur=Beneficiary blow=Product |
| 4 | **whar** |  | en hit |  |  |  |  | de sinners and oughter hide | tree rules |
| 5 | **bosom** |  | En Aberham |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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