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title: "Well, den," continued the old man, "nex' time you see one un um, yo… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well, den," continued the old man, "nex' time you see one un um, you look right close en see ef de een' er his tail ain't w'ite. Who acts: den, you. 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 t
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 55

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"Well, den," continued the old man, "nex' time you see one un um, you look right close en see ef de een' er his tail ain't w'ite.

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**Who acts:** den, you · **What happens:** continue, see, look · **To what, where:** old man, one un um, close en, ef de een · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, you), 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:pg2306:20:55
# text = "Well, den," continued the old man, "nex' time you see one un um, you look right close en see ef de een' er his tail ain't w'ite.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	right	right	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
28	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	30	compound	_	_
30	een	een	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	er	er	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	w'ite	w'ite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **continue** | past | den | the old man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | present | you | one un um |  |  | time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer um=Stimulus |
| 3 | **look** *in a quote* | present | you | close en |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | ef de een |  |  |  | er den's tail ai  w'ite | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer een=Stimulus |

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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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