Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 8

Rain er shine, hot er col', strike up wid ole Brer Tarrypin w'en you will en w'ilst you may, en whar you fine 'im, dar you'll fine his shanty.

Who acts: you · What happens: strike up, fine · To what, where: Rain, im, shanty

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2306:627): 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 strike	obl:unmarked
2	er	er	CCONJ	_	3 shine	cc
3	shine	shine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rain	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 col	punct
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Rain	conj
6	er	er	CCONJ	_	7 col	cc
7	col	col	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hot	conj
8	',	',	PUNCT	_	7 col	punct
9	strike	strike	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 strike	compound:prt
11	wid	wid	ADP	_	14 Tarrypin	case
12	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Tarrypin	amod
13	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Tarrypin	compound
14	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 strike	obl
15	w'en	w'en	ADV	PronType=Int	17 will	advmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 will	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 strike	advcl
18	en	en	CCONJ	_	21 may	cc
19	w'ilst	w'ilst	SCONJ	_	21 may	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 may	nsubj
21	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 will	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fine	punct
23	en	en	CCONJ	_	33 fine	cc
24	whar	whar	ADV	PronType=Int	26 fine	advmod
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 fine	nsubj
26	fine	fine	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 fine	advcl
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 im	punct
28	im	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fine	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fine	punct
30	dar	dar	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 fine	advmod
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 fine	nsubj
32	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 fine	aux
33	fine	fine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 strike	conj
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 shanty	nmod:poss
35	shanty	shanty	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fine	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 strike	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	strike up	imperative	you not said here	Rain er shine		wid ole Brer Tarrypin	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	fine	present	you		im = he	whar property	vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	fine	future	you	Tarrypin's shanty		dar property	vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shanty=Recipient

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.

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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