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title: He got back little fudder, en spit on his han's, en lit out en made… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He got back little fudder, en spit on his han's, en lit out en made de jump, en he come so nigh gittin' in dat de een' er his tail kotch afier. Who acts: den, en lit en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, with its d
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 52

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He got back little fudder, en spit on his han's, en lit out en made de jump, en he come so nigh gittin' in dat de een' er his tail kotch afier.

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**Who acts:** den, en lit en · **What happens:** get back, lit out, make, come · **To what, where:** little fudder, de jump, gittin

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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 (den, en lit en), 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:pg2306:20:52
# text = He got back little fudder, en spit on his han's, en lit out en made de jump, en he come so nigh gittin' in dat de een' er his tail kotch afier.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fudder	fudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	spit	spit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
15	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	gittin	gittin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	32	compound	_	_
32	een	een	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
34	er	er	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
36	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	kotch	kotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	afier	afier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get back** | past | den | little fudder and en |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fudder=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lit out** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | participle | den's han's en lit en *not said here* | de jump |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset jump=Product |
| 4 | **come** | present | den | gittin in dat er den's kotch afier |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location en=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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