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title: De dry wedder breaks wid a big thunder-clap, For dey ain't no drout'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De dry wedder breaks wid a big thunder-clap, For dey ain't no drout' w'at kin las', But de seasons w'at whoops up de cotton crap, Likewise dey freshens up de grass. Who acts: De dry wedder, dey ai, Likewise dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Time
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Time Goes By Turns, sentence 4

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De dry wedder breaks wid a big thunder-clap, For dey ain't no drout' w'at kin las', But de seasons w'at whoops up de cotton crap, Likewise dey freshens up de grass.

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**Who acts:** De dry wedder, dey ai, Likewise dey · **What happens:** break, whoop up, freshen up · **To what, where:** wid, de cotton crap, de grass

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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 (De dry wedder, dey ai, Likewise dey), 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:pg2306:45:4
# text = De dry wedder breaks wid a big thunder-clap, For dey ain't no drout' w'at kin las', But de seasons w'at whoops up de cotton crap, Likewise dey freshens up de grass.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
2	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wedder	wedder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	clap	clap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	For	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
17	drout	drout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
19	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	las	la	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	',	',	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
26	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	whoops	whoop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	compound	_	_
30	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	crap	crap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	Likewise	likewise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	freshens	freshen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	38	compound	_	_
38	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **break** | present | De dry wedder | wid |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent wid=Patient clap=Result |
| 2 | **whoop up** *speech: other* | present | dey ai | de cotton crap |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crap=Topic |
| 3 | **freshen up** | present | Likewise dey | de grass |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent grass=Patient |

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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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