--- title: "En wid dat he drapt his game en loped back up de road atter de udde… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "En wid dat he drapt his game en loped back up de road atter de udder rabbit, en w'en he got outer sight, ole Brer Rabbit, he snatch up Brer Fox game en put out fer home. Who acts: En, Hunter, game en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/18/26/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Ra…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/18/) / 26 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 26 "En wid dat he drapt his game en loped back up de road atter de udder rabbit, en w'en he got outer sight, ole Brer Rabbit, he snatch up Brer Fox game en put out fer home. **Who acts:** En, Hunter, game en · **What happens:** wi, drapt, lope, get, snatch up, put out · **To what, where:** dat, outer sight, game en · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (En, Hunter, game en), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:18:26 # text = "En wid dat he drapt his game en loped back up de road atter de udder rabbit, en w'en he got outer sight, ole Brer Rabbit, he snatch up Brer Fox game en put out fer home. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 En En PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wid wi VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 drapt drapt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 loped lope VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 11 back back ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 up up ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 13 de de ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 atter atter NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 de de ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 udder udder NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 outer outer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 ole ole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 snatch snatch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 33 up up ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 xcomp _ _ 35 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 flat _ _ 36 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ _ 38 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 acl _ _ 39 out out ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 41 home home ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wi** *in a quote* | past | En | dat | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **drapt** *in a quote* | past | Hunter | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **lope** *in a quote* | past | Hunter's game en | | | | | de road atter de udder rabbit and en w'en | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **get** *in a quote* | past | Hunter | outer sight | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | | 5 | **snatch up** *in a quote* | present | Hunter | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **put out** *in a quote* | participle | | game en *not said here* | | | | home *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/18/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/18/27/) - ↑ back to [XV. 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