---
title: W'en dey done howdyin' en axin' atter one nudder's fambly connexshun… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: W'en dey done howdyin' en axin' atter one nudder's fambly connexshun, Brer Wolf, he 'low, he did, dat der wuz sump'n wrong wid Brer Fox, en Brer Fox, he 'low'd der wern't, en he went on en laugh en make great terdo kaze Brer Wolf look like he spishun sump'n. Who acts: W'en dey, dey, der wer, great t
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/14/11/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/14/) / 11

# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 11

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
W'en dey done howdyin' en axin' atter one nudder's fambly connexshun, Brer Wolf, he 'low, he did, dat der wuz sump'n wrong wid Brer Fox, en Brer Fox, he 'low'd der wern't, en he went on en laugh en make great terdo kaze Brer Wolf look like he spishun sump'n.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** W'en dey, dey, der wer, great terdo kaze · **What happens:** do, dat, go, make, look · **To what, where:** howdyin, der wuz, en, en laugh en

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (W'en dey, dey, der wer, great terdo kaze), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg2306:14:11
# text = W'en dey done howdyin' en axin' atter one nudder's fambly connexshun, Brer Wolf, he 'low, he did, dat der wuz sump'n wrong wid Brer Fox, en Brer Fox, he 'low'd der wern't, en he went on en laugh en make great terdo kaze Brer Wolf look like he spishun sump'n.
1	W'en	w'en	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
3	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	howdyin	howdyin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	axin	axin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	_
11	nudder	nudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	fambly	fambly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	connexshun	connexshun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	dat	dat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
27	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	sump'n	sump'n	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
31	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
36	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	'd	'd	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
43	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	44	amod	_	_
44	wer	wer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	acl:relcl	_	_
50	on	on	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	en	en	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
52	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
54	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	parataxis	_	_
55	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
56	terdo	terdo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	_
57	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nsubj	_	_
58	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	appos	_	_
59	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	flat	_	_
60	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	xcomp	_	_
61	like	like	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
62	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
63	spishun	spishun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	compound	_	_
64	sump'n	sump'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle | W'en dey *not said here* | howdyin and en axin and atter |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent howdyin=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | past | dey |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dat** | infinitive |  | der wuz sump'n wrong wid Brer Fox and en Brer Fox |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | past | dey | en *not said here* |  | en laugh en |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location en=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | present | der wer and en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **look** | present | great terdo kaze |  |  |  |  | like spishun sump'n | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/14/10/)
- next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/14/12/)
- ↑ back to [XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/14/)