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title: "Kase all de time de cow wuz layin' pile up in his smoke-'ouse, en h… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Kase all de time de cow wuz layin' pile up in his smoke-'ouse, en him en his chilluns wuz eatin' fried beef an inguns eve'y time dey mouf water. Who acts: Kase, smoke, chilluns, inguns. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 59

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"Kase all de time de cow wuz layin' pile up in his smoke-'ouse, en him en his chilluns wuz eatin' fried beef an inguns eve'y time dey mouf water.

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**Who acts:** Kase, smoke, chilluns, inguns · **What happens:** pile up, en, wuz, eatin, fry, water · **To what, where:** ouse, en, fried beef

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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 (Kase, smoke, chilluns, inguns), 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:pg2306:23:59
# text = "Kase all de time de cow wuz layin' pile up in his smoke-'ouse, en him en his chilluns wuz eatin' fried beef an inguns eve'y time dey mouf water.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Kase	Kase	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	compound	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
7	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	layin	layin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	pile	pile	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
15	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	ouse	ouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	en	en	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	chilluns	chillun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
26	eatin	eatin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	fried	fry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	beef	beef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
31	inguns	ingun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
32	eve'y	eve'y	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	mouf	mouf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pile up** *in a quote* | present | Kase |  |  | Kase's ouse and en |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in ouse=Destination |
| 2 | **en** *in a quote* | past | smoke | en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wuz** *in a quote* | present | Kase's chilluns | en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **eatin** *in a quote* | gerund | Kase's chilluns *not said here* | fried beef |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fry** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **water** *in a quote* |  | inguns |  |  |  |  |  | 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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