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title: "One day, atter Sis Cow done run pas' 'er own shadder tryin' fer ter… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "One day, atter Sis Cow done run pas' 'er own shadder tryin' fer ter ketch 'im. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 2

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"One day, atter Sis Cow done run pas' 'er own shadder tryin' fer ter ketch 'im.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** do, run · **To what, where:** One day, pas

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg2306:13:2
# text = "One day, atter Sis Cow done run pas' 'er own shadder tryin' fer ter ketch 'im.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	Sis	Sis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
9	run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	pas	pa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	shadder	shadder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	tryin	tryin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	conj	_	_
19	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	'	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | participle |  | One day and atter and Sis Cow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **run** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | pas |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pa=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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