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title: So he scramble outen de woods, en roll 'cross de ditch, en shuffle t… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: So he scramble outen de woods, en roll 'cross de ditch, en shuffle thoo de crowd er folks en git ter de mile-pos' en crawl behime it. Who acts: en, outen. 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 tr
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 44

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So he scramble outen de woods, en roll 'cross de ditch, en shuffle thoo de crowd er folks en git ter de mile-pos' en crawl behime it.

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**Who acts:** en, outen · **What happens:** scramble, behime · **To what, where:** outen

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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 (en, outen), 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:pg2306:21:44
# text = So he scramble outen de woods, en roll 'cross de ditch, en shuffle thoo de crowd er folks en git ter de mile-pos' en crawl behime it.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	scramble	scramble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	outen	outen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	de	de	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	compound	_	_
13	ditch	ditch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	shuffle	shuffle	X	FW	_	17	compound	_	_
17	thoo	thoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	flat:foreign	_	_
19	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
20	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	en	en	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	flat:foreign	_	_
26	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	pos	pos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
30	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	crawl	crawl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	behime	behime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scramble** | infinitive | en | outen |  |  |  | de woods | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location outen=Theme |
| 2 | **behime** |  | outen |  |  |  |  |  | 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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