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title: "En wid dat, Miss Cow tuck down de road like de dogs wuz atter er, e… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "En wid dat, Miss Cow tuck down de road like de dogs wuz atter er, en Brer Rabbit, he des lay down dar in de brier-patch en roll en laugh twel his sides hurtid 'im. Who acts: de dogs, En wid dat. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Vic
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 63

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"En wid dat, Miss Cow tuck down de road like de dogs wuz atter er, en Brer Rabbit, he des lay down dar in de brier-patch en roll en laugh twel his sides hurtid 'im.

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**Who acts:** de dogs, En wid dat · **What happens:** wuz, de, lay down, laugh · **To what, where:** atter er, dar · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (de dogs, En wid dat), 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:pg2306:12:63
# text = "En wid dat, Miss Cow tuck down de road like de dogs wuz atter er, en Brer Rabbit, he des lay down dar in de brier-patch en roll en laugh twel his sides hurtid 'im.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	Cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	tuck	tuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	de	de	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl	_	_
16	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
21	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	des	de	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
26	down	down	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
29	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
30	brier	brier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
36	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
37	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	compound	_	_
40	hurtid	hurtid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
41	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	im	im	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	36	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wuz** *in a quote* | present | de dogs | atter er and en |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **de** *in a quote* | present | En wid dat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lay down** *in a quote* | infinitive | En wid dat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **laugh** *in a quote* | infinitive | En wid dat *not said here* | dar in de roll en |  |  |  | im *obl:unmarked* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurtid=Theme |

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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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