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title: Hit's good ter be dere, en it's sweet ter be dere, Wid de sisterin'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hit's good ter be dere, en it's sweet ter be dere, Wid de sisterin' all aroun' you-- A shakin' dem shackles er mussy en' love Wharwid de Lord is boun' you. Who acts: sisterin. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. the Big Bethel Church, with its depend
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. the Big Bethel Church, sentence 3

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Hit's good ter be dere, en it's sweet ter be dere, Wid de sisterin' all aroun' you-- A shakin' dem shackles er mussy en' love Wharwid de Lord is boun' you.

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**Who acts:** sisterin · **What happens:** be, shake, bind · **To what, where:** shackles, Lord

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. the Big Bethel Church. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisterin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2306:1790`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:44:3
# text = Hit's good ter be dere, en it's sweet ter be dere, Wid de sisterin' all aroun' you-- A shakin' dem shackles er mussy en' love Wharwid de Lord is boun' you.
1	Hit	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	ter	ter	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	dere	dere	ADV	RB	_	3	csubj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	en	en	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	expl	_	_
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
12	ter	ter	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	dere	dere	ADV	RB	_	11	csubj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	Wid	wid	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	de	de	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sisterin	sisterin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	aroun	aroun	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
24	--	--	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	A	a	ADP	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	shakin	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	acl	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	dem	dem	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	shackles	shackle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	er	er	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	mussy	mussy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	en	en	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
34	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
35	Wharwid	wharwid	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	39	advmod	_	_
36	de	de	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	boun	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	_
40	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | dere *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | sweet *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | wid de sisterin aroun you; dere *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **shake** | gerund | de sisterin aroun you *not said here* | dem shackles |  |  |  | er mussy en love | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent shackle=Patient |
| 6 | **bind** | present · passive |  | de Lord |  |  |  | wharwid *property* | 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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