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title: "Den dey all put out en lef' Brer Tarrypin at de branch, en w'en dey… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Den dey all put out en lef' Brer Tarrypin at de branch, en w'en dey got good en gone, he dove down inter de water, he did, en tie de bed-cord hard en fas' ter wunner deze yer big clay-roots, en den he riz up en gin a whoop. Who acts: Den dey, en, dey, hard en fas. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His So
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 26

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"Den dey all put out en lef' Brer Tarrypin at de branch, en w'en dey got good en gone, he dove down inter de water, he did, en tie de bed-cord hard en fas' ter wunner deze yer big clay-roots, en den he riz up en gin a whoop.

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**Who acts:** Den dey, en, dey, hard en fas · **What happens:** put out, get, dove down, do, deze, riz up · **To what, where:** en lef, de branch, good en, water, en tie, big clay roots

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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 (Den dey, en, dey, hard en fas), 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:pg2306:29:26
# text = "Den dey all put out en lef' Brer Tarrypin at de branch, en w'en dey got good en gone, he dove down inter de water, he did, en tie de bed-cord hard en fas' ter wunner deze yer big clay-roots, en den he riz up en gin a whoop.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	lef	lef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	w'en	w'en	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	_
18	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	dove	dove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	down	down	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	inter	inter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	flat:foreign	_	_
29	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	tie	tie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	de	de	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
40	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	fas	fa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	'	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
45	wunner	wunner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	deze	deze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	parataxis	_	_
47	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
48	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
49	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	_
55	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	riz	riz	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	parataxis	_	_
57	up	up	ADP	RP	_	56	compound:prt	_	_
58	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	_
59	gin	gin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	_
60	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	whoop	whoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put out** *in a quote* | past | Den dey | en lef |  | de branch |  | all *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lef=Theme at branch=Destination |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | past | en and dey | good en |  |  |  | gone *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer en=Stimulus |
| 3 | **dove down** *in a quote* | past | dey | inter's water |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | past | dey | en tie |  |  |  | de bed cord | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tie=Eventuality |
| 5 | **deze** *in a quote* |  | hard en fas | yer's big clay roots and en den |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **riz up** *in a quote* | present | dey | en gin |  |  |  |  | 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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