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title: "'Tuck a walk de udder day, en man come long en sot de fiel' a-fier. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Tuck a walk de udder day, en man come long en sot de fiel' a-fier. Who acts: you, en man. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 15

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"'Tuck a walk de udder day, en man come long en sot de fiel' a-fier.

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**Who acts:** you, en man · **What happens:** tuck, come · **To what, where:** long en sot

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, en man), 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:pg2306:15:15
# text = "'Tuck a walk de udder day, en man come long en sot de fiel' a-fier.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Tuck	tuck	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	udder	udder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	sot	sot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
17	fiel	fiel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	fier	fier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tuck** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | present | en man | long en sot and a fier |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sot=Theme |

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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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