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title: Smoove away sin's frown-- Retch up en git de crown, W'at de Lord wil… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Smoove away sin's frown-- Retch up en git de crown, W'at de Lord will fetch in de mornin'! Who acts: W'at, sin, de. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Camp-meeting Song *, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Camp-meeting Song \*, sentence 4

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Smoove away sin's frown-- Retch up en git de crown, W'at de Lord will fetch in de mornin'!

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**Who acts:** W'at, sin, de · **What happens:** retch up, fetch, frown, crown · **To what, where:** en git, de mornin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Camp-meeting Song \*. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (W'at, sin, de), 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:pg2306:40:4
# text = Smoove away sin's frown-- Retch up en git de crown, W'at de Lord will fetch in de mornin'!
1	Smoove	Smoove	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	frown	frown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Retch	retch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	appos	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	W'at	W'at	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	compound	_	_
21	mornin	mornin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retch up** | infinitive |  | en git |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fetch** | future | W'at |  |  | de mornin |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **frown** |  | sin |  |  |  |  |  | nom frown «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **crown** |  | de |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication 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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