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title: "Well, den," continued the old man with unction, "dar's whar my 'mem… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well, den," continued the old man with unction, "dar's whar my 'membunce gin out, kaze Brer Rabbit did git kotched up wid, en hit cool 'im off like po'in' spring water on one er deze yer biggity fices." Who acts: den, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harri
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 3

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"Well, den," continued the old man with unction, "dar's whar my 'membunce gin out, kaze Brer Rabbit did git kotched up wid, en hit cool 'im off like po'in' spring water on one er deze yer biggity fices."

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**Who acts:** den, en · **What happens:** continue, kotch up, hit · **To what, where:** old man, cool

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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 (den, 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:pg2306:21:3
# text = "Well, den," continued the old man with unction, "dar's whar my 'membunce gin out, kaze Brer Rabbit did git kotched up wid, en hit cool 'im off like po'in' spring water on one er deze yer biggity fices."
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	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	unction	unction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	whar	whar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	membunce	membunce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	gin	gin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
26	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl	_	_
28	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
29	kotched	kotch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	obj	_	_
36	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	im	im	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
38	off	off	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
39	like	like	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	po'in	po'in	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	_
42	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nummod	_	_
46	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	deze	deze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
48	yer	y	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	50	amod	_	_
49	biggity	biggity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	fices	fice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## 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 |  |  |  | with unction | tree rules |
| 2 | **kotch up** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hit** *in a quote* | past | en | cool |  |  |  | like po'in and spring water; on one er deze and yer biggity fices | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent cool=Instrument on deze=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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