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title: En he wa'n't mo'n gone 'fo' Brer Rabbit, he whirl in en skunt de cow… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: En he wa'n't mo'n gone 'fo' Brer Rabbit, he whirl in en skunt de cow en salt de hide down, en den he tuck'n cut up de kyarkiss en stow it 'way in de smoke-'ouse, en den he tuck'n stick de een' er de cow-tail in de groun'. Who acts: En, de, cow en salt. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His S
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 45

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En he wa'n't mo'n gone 'fo' Brer Rabbit, he whirl in en skunt de cow en salt de hide down, en den he tuck'n cut up de kyarkiss en stow it 'way in de smoke-'ouse, en den he tuck'n stick de een' er de cow-tail in de groun'.

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**Who acts:** En, de, cow en salt · **What happens:** wa', whirl, salt, hide down, tuck'n, cut up · **To what, where:** en skunt, den tuck'n, mo'n, de, de ouse

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (En, de, cow en salt), 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:pg2306:23:45
# text = En he wa'n't mo'n gone 'fo' Brer Rabbit, he whirl in en skunt de cow en salt de hide down, en den he tuck'n cut up de kyarkiss en stow it 'way in de smoke-'ouse, en den he tuck'n stick de een' er de cow-tail in de groun'.
1	En	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wa'	wa'	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	mo'n	mo'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	whirl	whirl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	skunt	skunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	nsubj	_	_
19	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	de	de	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	tuck'n	tuck'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
30	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	de	de	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	kyarkiss	kyarkiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	stow	stow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
40	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
41	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	ouse	ouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	tuck'n	tuck'n	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	stick	stick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
51	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	50	obj	_	_
52	een	een	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	'	's	PART	POS	_	52	case	_	_
54	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
55	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	54	flat:foreign	_	_
56	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	_
59	in	in	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	61	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wa'** | past | En |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **whirl** | present | en |  |  | en skunt |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in skunt=Trajectory |
| 3 | **salt** |  | de |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hide down** | infinitive | cow en salt and den tuck'n *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **tuck'n** |  | en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **cut up** | participle |  | den tuck'n *not said here* |  |  |  | de kyarkiss en | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **stow** | infinitive |  | mo'n |  |  |  | way *obl* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 8 | **stick** | infinitive | en | de |  | de ouse and en den |  | in de groun | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent de=Theme in ouse=Destination |

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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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