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title: De ole 'oman, she tuck 'er stan' nigh de fus' mile-pos', she did, en… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De ole 'oman, she tuck 'er stan' nigh de fus' mile-pos', she did, en de chilluns nigh de udders, up ter de las', en dar old Brer Tarrypin, he tuck his stan'. Who acts: dey, de, chilluns, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His M
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 24

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De ole 'oman, she tuck 'er stan' nigh de fus' mile-pos', she did, en de chilluns nigh de udders, up ter de las', en dar old Brer Tarrypin, he tuck his stan'.

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**Who acts:** dey, de, chilluns, en · **What happens:** tuck, pos, do, de · **To what, where:** mile pos, udders, stan

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dey, de, chilluns, 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:pg2306:21:24
# text = De ole 'oman, she tuck 'er stan' nigh de fus' mile-pos', she did, en de chilluns nigh de udders, up ter de las', en dar old Brer Tarrypin, he tuck his stan'.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	ole	ole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	oman	oman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tuck	tuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	er	er	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
12	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	nsubj	_	_
14	fus	fu	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	pos	pos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
24	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	flat:foreign	_	_
25	chilluns	chillun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	de	de	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	udders	udder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	up	up	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
32	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	conj	_	_
33	las	la	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	',	',	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	dar	dar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
39	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	tuck	tuck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tuck** |  | dey |  |  |  |  | er stan | tree rules |
| 2 | **pos** |  | de |  |  |  |  | nigh *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | past | dey | fus's mile pos *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pos=Eventuality |
| 4 | **de** | present | chilluns | udders |  |  |  | nigh *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **tuck** | infinitive | en |  | en's stan |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent stan=Destination |

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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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