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title: He rip en he ra'r, en he cuss, en he swar; he snort en he cavort." — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He rip en he ra'r, en he cuss, en he swar; he snort en he cavort." Who acts: amble. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 25

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He rip en he ra'r, en he cuss, en he swar; he snort en he cavort."

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**Who acts:** amble · **What happens:** rip, ra'r, cuss, swar, snort, cavort · **To what, where:** en

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (amble), 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:pg2306:10:25
# text = He rip en he ra'r, en he cuss, en he swar; he snort en he cavort."
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rip	rip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ra'r	ra'r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	cuss	cuss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	swar	swar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	snort	snort	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	cavort	cavort	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rip** | present | amble |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **ra'r** |  | amble |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cuss** |  | amble |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **swar** |  | amble |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **snort** | present | amble | en |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Patient |
| 6 | **cavort** | infinitive | amble | en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location en=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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