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title: He sorter step back, en look 'roun' en giggle, en over he went mo' s… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He sorter step back, en look 'roun' en giggle, en over he went mo' samer dan a bird flyin'. Who acts: dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 50

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He sorter step back, en look 'roun' en giggle, en over he went mo' samer dan a bird flyin'.

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**Who acts:** dey · **What happens:** step back, go · **To what, where:** en look, mo

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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 (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:pg2306:20:50
# text = He sorter step back, en look 'roun' en giggle, en over he went mo' samer dan a bird flyin'.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	sorter	sorter	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	giggle	giggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
15	over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
18	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	samer	sam	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	xcomp	_	_
21	dan	dan	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	flyin	flyin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step back** |  | dey | en look and roun en giggle and en |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | dey | mo |  |  |  | sam *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mo=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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