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title: He did manage fer ter scramble out, but a little mo' en de Mud Turkl… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He did manage fer ter scramble out, but a little mo' en de Mud Turkle would er got 'im, en den he'd er bin made hash un worl' widout een'." Who acts: honey, fer ter, little mo, er bin. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frog
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, sentence 34

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He did manage fer ter scramble out, but a little mo' en de Mud Turkle would er got 'im, en den he'd er bin made hash un worl' widout een'."

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**Who acts:** honey, fer ter, little mo, er bin · **What happens:** manage, scramble out, get, make · **To what, where:** im en den, hash un worl

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honey, fer ter, little mo, er bin), 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:pg2306:17:34
# text = He did manage fer ter scramble out, but a little mo' en de Mud Turkle would er got 'im, en den he'd er bin made hash un worl' widout een'."
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	scramble	scramble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	flat:foreign	_	_
16	Mud	Mud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	Turkle	Turkle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	im	im	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	en	en	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
28	er	er	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	hash	hash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	worl	worl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
35	widout	widout	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	een	een	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **manage** | past · do-support | honey |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **scramble out** | present | fer ter |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | would | a little mo and en | im en den |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer den=Stimulus |
| 4 | **make** | participle | er bin *not said here* | hash un worl |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset worl=Product |

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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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