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title: "En de chilluns, dey had ter put der han's on der moufs fer ter keep… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "En de chilluns, dey had ter put der han's on der moufs fer ter keep fum laffin'. Who acts: En, ter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 51

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"En de chilluns, dey had ter put der han's on der moufs fer ter keep fum laffin'.

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**Who acts:** En, ter · **What happens:** have, put, keep, fum · **To what, where:** der han, der moufs, laffin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (En, ter), 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:pg2306:16:51
# text = "En de chilluns, dey had ter put der han's on der moufs fer ter keep fum laffin'.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
4	chilluns	chillun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
9	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	moufs	mouf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
16	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
19	fum	fum	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
20	laffin	laffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | En |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** *in a quote* | participle | ter *not said here* | der han |  | der moufs and fer ter |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent han=Theme on mouf=Destination |
| 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | ter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fum** *in a quote* | infinitive | ter *not said here* | laffin |  |  |  |  | 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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