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title: Den Brer Fox, he went out atter some wood, he did, en w'en he come b… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Brer Fox, he went out atter some wood, he did, en w'en he come back he hear Brer Rabbit laughin'. Who acts: Den. 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 43

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Den Brer Fox, he went out atter some wood, he did, en w'en he come back he hear Brer Rabbit laughin'.

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**Who acts:** Den · **What happens:** go out, do, come back, hear · **To what, where:** atter, en w'en, Rabbit laughin

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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 (Den), 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:pg2306:13:43
# text = Den Brer Fox, he went out atter some wood, he did, en w'en he come back he hear Brer Rabbit laughin'.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	hear	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
22	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	laughin	laughin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | Den | atter |  |  |  | some wood *obl* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | past | den |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come back** | present | den | en w'en |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hear** | past | den | Rabbit laughin |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer laughin=Stimulus |

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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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