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title: Now, den," continued Uncle Remus, tearing off the comer of a plug of… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, den," continued Uncle Remus, tearing off the comer of a plug of tobacco and cramming it into his mouth--"now, den, dem 'simmons wuz green ez grass, en na'er one never drap. Who acts: simmons, one. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Miss Cow Falls
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 21

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Now, den," continued Uncle Remus, tearing off the comer of a plug of tobacco and cramming it into his mouth--"now, den, dem 'simmons wuz green ez grass, en na'er one never drap.

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**Who acts:** simmons, one · **What happens:** continue, tear off, cram, wuz, not drap · **To what, where:** den, comer, tobacco, mouth, green ez grass, en

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (simmons, one), 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:pg2306:12:21
# text = Now, den," continued Uncle Remus, tearing off the comer of a plug of tobacco and cramming it into his mouth--"now, den, dem 'simmons wuz green ez grass, en na'er one never drap.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	tearing	tear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	comer	comer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	plug	plug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	cramming	cram	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	simmons	simmon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	ez	ez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
40	na'er	na'er	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nsubj	_	_
42	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
43	drap	drap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** *in a quote* | past |  | den |  |  |  | den and dem *obl* | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent remus=Theme |
| 2 | **tear off** *in a quote* | gerund |  | the comer of a plug of tobacco |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location comer=Theme |
| 3 | **cram** *in a quote* | gerund |  | tobacco |  | REMUS's mouth |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into mouth=Destination |
| 4 | **wuz** | present | simmons | green ez grass and en |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **drap** | infinitive | one | en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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