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title: W'en dey pass one nudder on de half-way growl', Brer Rabbit he sing… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: W'en dey pass one nudder on de half-way growl', Brer Rabbit he sing out: Who acts: W'en dey, dey. 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 40

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W'en dey pass one nudder on de half-way growl', Brer Rabbit he sing out:

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**Who acts:** W'en dey, dey · **What happens:** pass, sing out · **To what, where:** one nudder, de way growl

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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 (W'en dey, dey), 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:pg2306:19:40
# text = W'en dey pass one nudder on de half-way growl', Brer Rabbit he sing out:
1	W'en	w'en	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	nudder	nudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	growl	growl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	',	',	PART	POS	_	11	dep	_	_
13	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | infinitive | W'en dey | one nudder |  | de way growl |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent nudder=Theme on growl=Destination |
| 2 | **sing out** *speech: express* | infinitive | dey | de way growl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location growl=Theme |

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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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