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title: Hump yo'se'f ter de load en fergit de distress, En dem w'at stan's b… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hump yo'se'f ter de load en fergit de distress, En dem w'at stan's by ter scoff, For de harder de pullin', de longer de res', En de bigger de feed in de troff. Who acts: En. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Time Goes By Turns, with its dependency tr
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Time Goes By Turns, sentence 8

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Hump yo'se'f ter de load en fergit de distress, En dem w'at stan's by ter scoff, For de harder de pullin', de longer de res', En de bigger de feed in de troff.

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**Who acts:** En · **What happens:** feed · **To what, where:** harder de pullin, de troff

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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 (En), 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:pg2306:45:8
# text = Hump yo'se'f ter de load en fergit de distress, En dem w'at stan's by ter scoff, For de harder de pullin', de longer de res', En de bigger de feed in de troff.
1	Hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	yo'se'f	yo'se'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	compound	_	_
5	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	en	en	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	compound	_	_
7	fergit	fergit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
8	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	distress	distress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	ter	ter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	scoff	scoff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	For	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
22	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	compound	_	_
24	pullin	pullin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	de	de	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	_
28	de	de	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	res	re	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	',	',	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
32	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	dep	_	_
33	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	amod	_	_
34	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	flat:foreign	_	_
35	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	38	compound	_	_
38	troff	troff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	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 | **feed** | present | res's En | harder de pullin *not said here* |  | de troff |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pullin=Value in troff=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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