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title: Atter w'ile he come crosst a well wid a bucket hangin' in it. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Atter w'ile he come crosst a well wid a bucket hangin' in it. Who acts: Atter w'ile. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 4

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Atter w'ile he come crosst a well wid a bucket hangin' in it.

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**Who acts:** Atter w'ile · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** crosst bucket hangin, hangin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Atter w'ile), 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:pg2306:19:4
# text = Atter w'ile he come crosst a well wid a bucket hangin' in it.
1	Atter	Atter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	w'ile	w'ile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	crosst	cros	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	hangin	hangin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | Atter w'ile | a crosst bucket hangin |  | hangin |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location |

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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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