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title: W'en Brer Tarrypin fine de place he wanter, he tuck one een er de be… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: W'en Brer Tarrypin fine de place he wanter, he tuck one een er de bed-cord, en gun de yuther een' to Brer B'ar. Who acts: W'en. 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 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 23

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W'en Brer Tarrypin fine de place he wanter, he tuck one een er de bed-cord, en gun de yuther een' to Brer B'ar.

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**Who acts:** W'en · **What happens:** wanter, tuck · **To what, where:** one een er

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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 (W'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:pg2306:29:23
# text = W'en Brer Tarrypin fine de place he wanter, he tuck one een er de bed-cord, en gun de yuther een' to Brer B'ar.
1	W'en	W'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	compound	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	wanter	wanter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	tuck	tuck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	de	de	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
22	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	compound	_	_
23	yuther	yuther	X	FW	_	24	compound	_	_
24	een	een	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wanter** |  | W'en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tuck** | present | W'en | one een er and en gun |  |  |  | de bed cord | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent er=Theme |

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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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