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title: De fokes all went ter de udder een' er de track fer ter see how dey… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De fokes all went ter de udder een' er de track fer ter see how dey come out. Who acts: De, er, dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 26

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De fokes all went ter de udder een' er de track fer ter see how dey come out.

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**Who acts:** De, er, dey · **What happens:** foke, go, see, come out · **To what, where:** ter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (De, er, 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:pg2306:21:26
# text = De fokes all went ter de udder een' er de track fer ter see how dey come out.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fokes	foke	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	compound	_	_
7	udder	udder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	een	een	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	nsubj	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat:foreign	_	_
12	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	flat:foreign	_	_
13	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
19	out	out	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **foke** | present | De |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | De *not said here* | ter |  |  |  | de udder een *obl* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ter=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | er |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **come out** | present | dey |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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