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title: En eve'y time he come down wid de axe--pow!--Mr. Buzzard, he step hi… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: En eve'y time he come down wid de axe--pow!--Mr. Buzzard, he step high, he did, en holler out: Who acts: Den, Buzzard. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 12

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En eve'y time he come down wid de axe--pow!--Mr. Buzzard, he step high, he did, en holler out:

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**Who acts:** Den, Buzzard · **What happens:** come down, step, do · **To what, where:** wid de axe, en holler

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den, Buzzard), 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:pg2306:11:12
# text = En eve'y time he come down wid de axe--pow!--Mr. Buzzard, he step high, he did, en holler out:
1	En	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	eve'y	eve'y	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	pow	pow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | present | Den | wid de axe and pow |  |  | time |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location axe=Theme |
| 2 | **step** |  | Den |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | past | Buzzard  Mr. | en holler |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holler=Eventuality |

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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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