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title: He tuck'n ben' down a hick'ry saplin', growin' in de fence-cornder,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He tuck'n ben' down a hick'ry saplin', growin' in de fence-cornder, en tie one een' un a plow- line on de top, en in de udder een' he fix a loop-knot, en dat he fasten wid a trigger right in de crack. Who acts: Brer, tuck'n ben, loop knot. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Jo
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 11

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He tuck'n ben' down a hick'ry saplin', growin' in de fence-cornder, en tie one een' un a plow- line on de top, en in de udder een' he fix a loop-knot, en dat he fasten wid a trigger right in de crack.

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**Who acts:** Brer, tuck'n ben, loop knot · **What happens:** ben, tie, fix, fasten, wi · **To what, where:** one een, en, de udder een, en dat, trigger, de crack

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer, tuck'n ben, loop knot), 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:pg2306:26:11
# text = He tuck'n ben' down a hick'ry saplin', growin' in de fence-cornder, en tie one een' un a plow- line on de top, en in de udder een' he fix a loop-knot, en dat he fasten wid a trigger right in de crack.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	tuck'n	tuck'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ben	ben	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	hick'ry	hick'ry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	saplin	saplin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	',	',	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	growin	growin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	cornder	cornder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
19	tie	tie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	een	een	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	plow	plow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
27	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	udder	udder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	een	een	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl:relcl	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	loop	loop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	knot	knot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	fasten	fasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	acl:relcl	_	_
49	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	ccomp	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	trigger	trigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
52	right	right	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	crack	crack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ben** |  | Brer |  |  |  |  | down a hick'ry saplin and growin in de fence cornder and en | tree rules |
| 2 | **tie** | present | tuck'n ben | one een and un |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent een=Patient |
| 3 | **fix** | infinitive | Brer | en *not said here* |  | de udder een |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fasten** | infinitive | Brer | en dat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dat=Patient |
| 5 | **wi** | past | a loop knot | a trigger |  | de crack |  |  | 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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