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title: But dey got de bed-cord atter w'ile, en den dey all put out ter de b… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: But dey got de bed-cord atter w'ile, en den dey all put out ter de branch. Who acts: dey, den dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 22

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But dey got de bed-cord atter w'ile, en den dey all put out ter de branch.

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**Who acts:** dey, den dey · **What happens:** get, put out · **To what, where:** cord atter w'ile, ter branch

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dey, den dey), 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:pg2306:29:22
# text = But dey got de bed-cord atter w'ile, en den dey all put out ter de branch.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	w'ile	w'ile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	all	all	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	flat:foreign	_	_
19	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | dey | cord atter w'ile |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer w'ile=Stimulus |
| 2 | **put out** | past | den dey *not said here* | ter branch |  |  |  | all *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent branch=Goal |

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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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