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title: "En eve'y time a chip ud fly off, Mr. Buzzard, he'd jump, en dodge,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "En eve'y time a chip ud fly off, Mr. Buzzard, he'd jump, en dodge, en hol' his head sideways, he would, en holler: Who acts: chip ud, ud. 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 pragm
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 15

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"En eve'y time a chip ud fly off, Mr. Buzzard, he'd jump, en dodge, en hol' his head sideways, he would, en holler:

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**Who acts:** chip ud, ud · **What happens:** fly off, jump · **To what, where:** Buzzard, en dodge

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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 (chip ud, ud), 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:pg2306:11:15
# text = "En eve'y time a chip ud fly off, Mr. Buzzard, he'd jump, en dodge, en hol' his head sideways, he would, en holler:
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	En	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	eve'y	eve'y	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	chip	chip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	ud	ud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	dodge	dodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	hol	hol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
26	sideways	sideways	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly off** *in a quote* | infinitive | a chip ud | Buzzard  Mr. |  |  | time |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **jump** *in a quote* | would | ud | en dodge |  |  |  | sideways *property* | tree rules |

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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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