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title: Den he spit in his han's en draw back en come down on de rock--pow!" — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den he spit in his han's en draw back en come down on de rock--pow!" Who acts: den, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 51

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Den he spit in his han's en draw back en come down on de rock--pow!"

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**Who acts:** den, en · **What happens:** spit, draw back, come down · **To what, where:** Den, en, de rock

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (den, 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:pg2306:27:51
# text = Den he spit in his han's en draw back en come down on de rock--pow!"
1	Den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spit	spit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	draw	draw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	compound	_	_
16	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	pow	pow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spit** | present | den | Den *not said here* |  | den's han's en |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent den=Theme in en=Destination |
| 2 | **draw back** | present | Den |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come down** | present | en |  |  | de rock and pow |  | down *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rock=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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