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title: W'en he got dar, hit look like nobody at home, but Brer Wolf he walk… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: W'en he got dar, hit look like nobody at home, but Brer Wolf he walk up en knock on de do'--blam! blam! Who acts: W'en, Brer Wolf. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 25

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W'en he got dar, hit look like nobody at home, but Brer Wolf he walk up en knock on de do'--blam! blam!

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**Who acts:** W'en, Brer Wolf · **What happens:** get, hit, look, walk up, do, blam · **To what, where:** en knock, de

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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, Brer Wolf), 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:pg2306:14:25
# text = W'en he got dar, hit look like nobody at home, but Brer Wolf he walk up en knock on de do'--blam! blam!
1	W'en	W'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	dar	dar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	knock	knock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	blam	blam	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
28	blam	blam	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | W'en |  |  |  |  | dar *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | present | W'en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like nobody; at home | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at home=Theme |
| 4 | **walk up** | infinitive | Brer Wolf | en knock |  | de |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent knock=Theme on de=Trajectory |
| 5 | **do** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **blam** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **blam** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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