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title: Hit got hotter en hotter in de war, en lonesomer en mo' lonesomer at… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hit got hotter en hotter in de war, en lonesomer en mo' lonesomer at home, en bimeby 'long come de conscrip' man, en he des everlas'nly scoop up Mars Jeems's overseer. Who acts: Hit, conscrip man, war. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 64

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Hit got hotter en hotter in de war, en lonesomer en mo' lonesomer at home, en bimeby 'long come de conscrip' man, en he des everlas'nly scoop up Mars Jeems's overseer.

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**Who acts:** Hit, conscrip man, war · **What happens:** get, come, scoop up · **To what, where:** war, overseer

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hit, conscrip man, war), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2306:1855`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:46:64
# text = Hit got hotter en hotter in de war, en lonesomer en mo' lonesomer at home, en bimeby 'long come de conscrip' man, en he des everlas'nly scoop up Mars Jeems's overseer.
1	Hit	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hotter	hot	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
4	en	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	hotter	hot	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	de	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	en	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	lonesomer	lonesome	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
12	en	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	mo	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	lonesomer	lonesome	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	conj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	en	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	bimeby	bimeby	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	de	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	conscrip	conscrip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	en	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	des	des	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	everlas'nly	everlas'nly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	scoop	scoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	_
36	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	_
37	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
38	overseer	overseer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Hit *= it* |  |  | the war |  | hot *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **come** | past | the conscrip man |  |  |  |  | bimeby, long *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **scoop up** | past | war | Mars's overseer |  |  |  | des, everlas'nly *property* | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent overseer=Theme |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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