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title: De rain fall so saf' in de long dark night, Twel you hatter hol' yo'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De rain fall so saf' in de long dark night, Twel you hatter hol' yo' han' for a sign, But de drizzle w'at sets de tater-slips right Is de makin' er de May-pop vine. Who acts: De rain fall, drizzle w'at, right. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Time G
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Time Goes By Turns, sentence 5

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De rain fall so saf' in de long dark night, Twel you hatter hol' yo' han' for a sign, But de drizzle w'at sets de tater-slips right Is de makin' er de May-pop vine.

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**Who acts:** De rain fall, drizzle w'at, right · **What happens:** hatter, set, be · **To what, where:** Twel, tater slips, de makin

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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 rain fall, drizzle w'at, right), 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:pg2306:45:5
# text = De rain fall so saf' in de long dark night, Twel you hatter hol' yo' han' for a sign, But de drizzle w'at sets de tater-slips right Is de makin' er de May-pop vine.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	saf	saf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	advmod	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Twel	Twel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	hatter	hatter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	hol	hol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
18	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	de	de	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	drizzle	drizzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
31	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	34	advmod	_	_
32	tater	tater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	slips	slip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
35	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
36	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	makin	makin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
40	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
41	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	_
42	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	pop	pop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	vine	vine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hatter** | present | De rain fall  saf in long dark night | Twel |  |  |  | for a sign | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** | present | de drizzle w'at | tater slips |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient slip=Result |
| 3 | **is a** | present | right | de makin and er |  |  |  |  | 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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