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title: Anyhow hit wuz endurin' er de night, en atter she git loose she sort… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Anyhow hit wuz endurin' er de night, en atter she git loose she sorter graze 'roun', she did, fer ter jestify 'er stummuck she low'd, ole Miss Cow did, dat Brer Rabbit be hoppin' long dat way fer ter see how she gittin' on, en she tuck'n lay er trap fer 'im; en des 'bout sunrise w'at'd ole Miss Cow 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 43

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Anyhow hit wuz endurin' er de night, en atter she git loose she sorter graze 'roun', she did, fer ter jestify 'er stummuck she low'd, ole Miss Cow did, dat Brer Rabbit be hoppin' long dat way fer ter see how she gittin' on, en she tuck'n lay er trap fer 'im; en des 'bout sunrise w'at'd ole Miss Cow do but march up ter de 'simmon tree en stick er horn back in de hole?

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**Who acts:** en atter, atter, way, en · **What happens:** hit, loose, do, jestify, dat, be · **To what, where:** wuz endurin, git, sorter graze, fer er stummuck, Rabbit hoppin, she gittin

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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 (en atter, atter, way, 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:pg2306:12:43
# text = Anyhow hit wuz endurin' er de night, en atter she git loose she sorter graze 'roun', she did, fer ter jestify 'er stummuck she low'd, ole Miss Cow did, dat Brer Rabbit be hoppin' long dat way fer ter see how she gittin' on, en she tuck'n lay er trap fer 'im; en des 'bout sunrise w'at'd ole Miss Cow do but march up ter de 'simmon tree en stick er horn back in de hole?
1	Anyhow	anyhow	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	endurin	endurin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	er	er	X	FW	_	8	compound	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat:foreign	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	loose	loose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	graze	graze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
25	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	dep	_	_
26	jestify	jestify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	er	er	X	FW	_	29	compound	_	_
29	stummuck	stummuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
31	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'd	'd	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	dat	dat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl:relcl	_	_
40	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	cop	_	_
43	hoppin	hoppin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	43	punct	_	_
45	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	50	advmod	_	_
46	dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
48	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	49	amod	_	_
49	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	conj	_	_
51	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	53	advmod	_	_
52	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	compound	_	_
53	gittin	gittin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	53	punct	_	_
55	on	on	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
57	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nsubj	_	_
58	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
59	tuck'n	tuck'n	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	parataxis	_	_
61	er	er	PART	TO	_	60	xcomp	_	_
62	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	compound	_	_
63	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	appos	_	_
64	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	65	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	73	punct	_	_
67	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	compound	_	_
68	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	compound	_	_
69	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	68	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	71	compound	_	_
71	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	compound	_	_
72	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	advcl	_	_
74	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	77	amod	_	_
75	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	77	compound	_	_
76	Cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	77	compound	_	_
77	do	do	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	obj	_	_
78	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	79	cc	_	_
79	march	march	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	60	conj	_	_
80	up	up	ADP	RP	_	79	compound:prt	_	_
81	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	82	compound	_	_
82	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	79	obj	_	_
83	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	89	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
84	simmon	simmon	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	89	amod	_	_
85	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	86	compound	_	_
86	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	87	compound	_	_
87	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	88	compound	_	_
88	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	89	compound	_	_
89	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	79	obl	_	_
90	back	back	ADV	RB	_	89	advmod	_	_
91	in	in	ADP	IN	_	93	case	_	_
92	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	93	compound	_	_
93	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	89	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
94	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | past |  | wuz endurin |  |  | night |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme endurin=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **loose** | past | en atter | git |  |  |  | fer er stummuck *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | past | atter | sorter graze *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent graze=Eventuality |
| 4 | **jestify** | infinitive | en atter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **dat** | past · do-support | atter | fer er stummuck *not said here* |  |  |  | low *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | infinitive |  | Rabbit hoppin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **see** | infinitive | that way | she gittin |  |  |  | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **lay** | infinitive | en |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **march up** | infinitive | en *not said here* | ter de |  |  |  | simmon er horn in de hole *obl* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme de=Trajectory |

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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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