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title: He scrape it clean en lick it dry, en den he go back ter wuk lookin'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He scrape it clean en lick it dry, en den he go back ter wuk lookin' mo' samer dan a nigger w'at de patter-rollers bin had holt un. Who acts: Dreckly, clean en, dan, bin. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, with its 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 23

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He scrape it clean en lick it dry, en den he go back ter wuk lookin' mo' samer dan a nigger w'at de patter-rollers bin had holt un.

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**Who acts:** Dreckly, clean en, dan, bin · **What happens:** scrape, lick, go back, w'at, have · **To what, where:** hisse'f, en den, holt un

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dreckly, clean en, dan, 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:pg2306:20:23
# text = He scrape it clean en lick it dry, en den he go back ter wuk lookin' mo' samer dan a nigger w'at de patter-rollers bin had holt un.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	scrape	scrape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lick	lick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	en	en	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	lookin	lookin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	samer	sam	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
22	dan	dan	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	nsubj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
26	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	flat	_	_
27	patter	patter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	rollers	roller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
30	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
32	holt	holt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scrape** | infinitive | Dreckly | hisse'f |  |  |  | ter wuk lookin and a samer nigger w'at and patter rollers; en den *obl* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **lick** | present | clean en | hisse'f |  |  |  | dry *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **go back** | present | Dreckly | en den *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **w'at** |  | dan |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | bin | holt un |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent un=Patient |

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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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