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title: Den Mr. Buzzard sorter shake his wing, en put his head on one side,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Mr. Buzzard sorter shake his wing, en put his head on one side, en say to hisse'f like, sezee: Who acts: Den sorter, en. 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 35

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Den Mr. Buzzard sorter shake his wing, en put his head on one side, en say to hisse'f like, sezee:

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**Who acts:** Den sorter, en · **What happens:** shake, put, say · **To what, where:** wing, head, one side · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Den sorter, 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:pg2306:10:35
# text = Den Mr. Buzzard sorter shake his wing, en put his head on one side, en say to hisse'f like, sezee:
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	hisse'f	hisse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
21	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | infinitive | Den sorter | en's wing |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 2 | **put** | past | en | en's head |  | one side |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme on side=Destination |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | en |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent like=Topic |

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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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