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title: Good had de inturn, en he stan' like a rock, En he bleedzd for ter b… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Good had de inturn, en he stan' like a rock, En he bleedzd for ter be on top. Who acts: Good. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Time Goes By Turns, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Time Goes By Turns, sentence 3

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Good had de inturn, en he stan' like a rock, En he bleedzd for ter be on top.

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**Who acts:** Good · **What happens:** de, stan, bleedz, be · **To what, where:** inturn, en, top

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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 (Good), 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:pg2306:45:3
# text = Good had de inturn, en he stan' like a rock, En he bleedzd for ter be on top.
1	Good	Good	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	de	de	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	inturn	inturn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stan	stan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	En	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	bleedzd	bleedz	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **de** | past · perfect | Good | inturn and en |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stan** | past | Good | en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bleedz** | past | Good |  |  |  |  | like a rock and En; for ter | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | infinitive | Good *not said here* |  |  | top |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location |

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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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