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title: DAR'S a pow'ful rassle 'twix de Good en de Bad, En de Bad's got de a… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: DAR'S a pow'ful rassle 'twix de Good en de Bad, En de Bad's got de all--under holt; En w'en de wuss come, she come i'on-clad, En you hatter hol' yo' bref for de jolt. Who acts: DAR, holt, you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Time Goes By Turns, wit
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Time Goes By Turns, sentence 1

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DAR'S a pow'ful rassle 'twix de Good en de Bad, En de Bad's got de all--under holt; En w'en de wuss come, she come i'on-clad, En you hatter hol' yo' bref for de jolt.

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**Who acts:** DAR, holt, you · **What happens:** rassle, get, come, hatter · **To what, where:** twix, i'on clad, hol yo bref

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Time Goes By Turns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (DAR, holt, you), 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:pg2306:45:1
# text = DAR'S a pow'ful rassle 'twix de Good en de Bad, En de Bad's got de all--under holt; En w'en de wuss come, she come i'on-clad, En you hatter hol' yo' bref for de jolt.
1	DAR	DAR	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'S	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pow'ful	pow'ful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rassle	rassle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	twix	twix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	de	de	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	de	de	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Bad	Bad	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
16	Bad	Bad	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
19	de	de	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	under	under	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	holt	holt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
25	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
26	w'en	w'en	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	dep	_	_
27	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	flat	_	_
28	wuss	wuss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	flat:foreign	_	_
29	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
33	i'on	i'on	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	clad	clad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
38	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	hatter	hatter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
40	hol	hol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	_
42	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	_
44	bref	bref	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	jolt	jolt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rassle** | present | DAR | twix |  |  |  | de Good en | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive | DAR *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | present | holt | i'on clad |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clad=Theme |
| 5 | **hatter** | present | you | hol yo bref |  |  |  | for de jolt | 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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