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title: W'en he come ter de nex' pos', nudder Tarrypin crawl out er de woods. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: W'en he come ter de nex' pos', nudder Tarrypin crawl out er de woods. Who acts: W'en, ter, Tarrypin. 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 37

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W'en he come ter de nex' pos', nudder Tarrypin crawl out er de woods.

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**Who acts:** W'en, ter, Tarrypin · **What happens:** come, nudder, crawl out · **To what, where:** er de woods

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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, ter, Tarrypin), 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:pg2306:21:37
# text = W'en he come ter de nex' pos', nudder Tarrypin crawl out er de woods.
1	W'en	W'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	nsubj	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat:foreign	_	_
6	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	pos	pos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	',	',	PART	POS	_	8	dep	_	_
10	nudder	nudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	crawl	crawl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **nudder** |  | ter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **crawl out** | present | Tarrypin | er de woods |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location wood=Theme |

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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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