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title: One en all on us knows who's a pullin' at de bits Like de lead-mule… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: One en all on us knows who's a pullin' at de bits Like de lead-mule dat g'ides by de rein, En yit, somehow or nudder, de bestest un us gits Mighty sick er de tuggin' at de chain. Who acts: One en, dat. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Time Goes By T
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Time Goes By Turns, sentence 7

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One en all on us knows who's a pullin' at de bits Like de lead-mule dat g'ides by de rein, En yit, somehow or nudder, de bestest un us gits Mighty sick er de tuggin' at de chain.

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**Who acts:** One en, dat · **What happens:** know, be, best · **To what, where:** de bits, pullin, un gits

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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 (One en, dat), 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:pg2306:45:7
# text = One en all on us knows who's a pullin' at de bits Like de lead-mule dat g'ides by de rein, En yit, somehow or nudder, de bestest un us gits Mighty sick er de tuggin' at de chain.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pullin	pullin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
15	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	dat	dat	X	GW	_	34	nsubj	_	_
21	g'ides	g'ide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	flat	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	rein	rein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	yit	yit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	somehow	somehow	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	nudder	nudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	flat	_	_
34	bestest	best	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
35	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
36	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nmod	_	_
37	gits	git	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
38	Mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	42	compound	_	_
42	tuggin	tuggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	46	compound	_	_
46	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | One en |  |  | de bits like de lead mule |  | all *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a pullin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **best** | present | dat by de rein and En yit | un gits  Mighty sick er at de chain |  |  |  |  | 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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