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title: De creeturs 'gun ter cheat, en den fokes tuck it up, en hit keep on… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De creeturs 'gun ter cheat, en den fokes tuck it up, en hit keep on spreadin'. Who acts: den fokes, en. 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 52

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De creeturs 'gun ter cheat, en den fokes tuck it up, en hit keep on spreadin'.

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**Who acts:** den fokes, en · **What happens:** tuck up, hit, keep · **To what, where:** cheat, spreadin

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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 fokes, 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:pg2306:21:52
# text = De creeturs 'gun ter cheat, en den fokes tuck it up, en hit keep on spreadin'.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	compound	_	_
2	creeturs	creetur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	cheat	cheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	fokes	foke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	tuck	tuck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	spreadin	spreadin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tuck up** | present | den fokes | cheat |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **hit** | past | en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive | en *not said here* |  |  | spreadin |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on spreadin=Location |

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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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