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title: Hit's good ter be dere w'en de sinners all jine Wid de brudderin in… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hit's good ter be dere w'en de sinners all jine Wid de brudderin in dere singin', En it look like Gaberl gwine ter rack up en blow En set dem heav'm bells ter ringin'! Who acts: good ter, ter, dere w'en de sinners, en blow. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harr
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. the Big Bethel Church, sentence 5

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Hit's good ter be dere w'en de sinners all jine Wid de brudderin in dere singin', En it look like Gaberl gwine ter rack up en blow En set dem heav'm bells ter ringin'!

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**Who acts:** good ter, ter, dere w'en de sinners, en blow · **What happens:** w'en, be, look, rack up, set · **To what, where:** dere w'en de sinners, heav bells

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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 (good ter, ter, dere w'en de sinners, en blow), 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:pg2306:44:5
# text = Hit's good ter be dere w'en de sinners all jine Wid de brudderin in dere singin', En it look like Gaberl gwine ter rack up en blow En set dem heav'm bells ter ringin'!
1	Hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
6	dere	dere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	w'en	w'en	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
8	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	sinners	sinner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
11	jine	jine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	Wid	Wid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	brudderin	brudderin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:desc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	dere	dere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	singin	singin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	',	',	PART	POS	_	17	dep	_	_
19	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	Gaberl	Gaberl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	rack	rack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	en	en	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
31	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
32	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	heav	heav	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
36	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	ringin	ringin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **w'en** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive | Hit's good ter | dere w'en de sinners |  |  |  | En  all Wid brudderin and dere singin *nmod* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | present | ter | dere w'en de sinners *not said here* |  |  |  | like Gaberl gwine ter | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sinner=Attribute |
| 4 | **rack up** | present | dere w'en de sinners |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **set** | past | en blow |  |  |  |  | ter ringin | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **is a** | present |  | heav bells |  |  |  |  | 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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