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title: He could go out en pass de time er day 'wid his neighbors, en come b… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He could go out en pass de time er day 'wid his neighbors, en come back en set by de fier, en smoke his pipe, en read de newspapers same like enny man w'at got a fambly. Who acts: dat, neighbors, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. the Awful Fate
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 15

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He could go out en pass de time er day 'wid his neighbors, en come back en set by de fier, en smoke his pipe, en read de newspapers same like enny man w'at got a fambly.

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**Who acts:** dat, neighbors, en · **What happens:** go out, wi, come back, set, read, get · **To what, where:** en

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dat, neighbors, en), 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:pg2306:16:15
# text = He could go out en pass de time er day 'wid his neighbors, en come back en set by de fier, en smoke his pipe, en read de newspapers same like enny man w'at got a fambly.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	pass	pass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat:foreign	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	er	er	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
20	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	compound	_	_
23	fier	fier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
31	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
32	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	acl:relcl	_	_
35	like	like	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	enny	enny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
37	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
39	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	fambly	fambly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | could | dat |  |  |  | day; time |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wi** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come back** | present | dat's neighbors and en |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **set** | participle |  | en *not said here* |  |  |  | by de fier and en smoke and en; like enny man w'at | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by fier=Destination |
| 5 | **read** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **get** | past | en |  |  |  |  | fambly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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