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title: W'en de time come Jedge Buzzard strut 'roun' en pull out his watch,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: W'en de time come Jedge Buzzard strut 'roun' en pull out his watch, en holler out: Who acts: W'en time. 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 27

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W'en de time come Jedge Buzzard strut 'roun' en pull out his watch, en holler out:

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**Who acts:** W'en time · **What happens:** come, pull out · **To what, where:** Jedge strut, watch

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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 (W'en time), 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:pg2306:21:27
# text = W'en de time come Jedge Buzzard strut 'roun' en pull out his watch, en holler out:
1	W'en	W'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Jedge	Jedge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	strut	strut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	en	en	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | W'en time | Jedge strut |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location strut=Theme |
| 2 | **pull out** | infinitive | W'en time *not said here* | de's watch and en holler |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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