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title: "Hit's de ruinashun er dis country. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Hit's de ruinashun er dis country. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. As to Education, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. As to Education, sentence 17

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"Hit's de ruinashun er dis country.

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. As to Education. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2306:63:17
# text = "Hit's de ruinashun er dis country.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hit	Hit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	compound	_	_
5	ruinashun	ruinashun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
7	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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