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title: Den he come ter nex', en dar wuz de Tarrypin. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den he come ter nex', en dar wuz de Tarrypin. Who acts: Den, nex. 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 41

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Den he come ter nex', en dar wuz de Tarrypin.

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**Who acts:** Den, nex · **What happens:** come, wuz

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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, nex), 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:pg2306:21:41
# text = Den he come ter nex', en dar wuz de Tarrypin.
1	Den	den	NOUN	NN	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	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ter	ter	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	',	',	PART	POS	_	5	dep	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
10	de	de	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Den |  |  |  |  | ter *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wuz** |  | nex |  |  |  |  | de Tarrypin | 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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