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title: But de smoke en de ashes gwine up de chimbly got de best er Brer Rab… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: But de smoke en de ashes gwine up de chimbly got de best er Brer Rabbit, en bimeby he sneeze--huckychow! Who acts: de ashes, chimbly, Brer. 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 pragmat
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 36

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But de smoke en de ashes gwine up de chimbly got de best er Brer Rabbit, en bimeby he sneeze--huckychow!

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**Who acts:** de ashes, chimbly, Brer · **What happens:** smoke, gwine up, get, sneeze · **To what, where:** en bimeby

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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 (de ashes, chimbly, Brer), 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:pg2306:13:36
# text = But de smoke en de ashes gwine up de chimbly got de best er Brer Rabbit, en bimeby he sneeze--huckychow!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	de	de	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	smoke	smoke	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gwine	gwine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	de	de	ADP	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	chimbly	chimbly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	de	de	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	vocative	_	_
16	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	huckychow	huckychow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smoke** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gwine up** | present | de ashes |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | past | chimbly |  |  |  |  | Brer  best er and huckychow *vocative* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **sneeze** | infinitive | Brer | en bimeby *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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