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title: Den he take bof han's en gin a big pull, but, all de same, Brer Tarr… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den he take bof han's en gin a big pull, but, all de same, Brer Tarrypin ain't budge. Who acts: den, Brer. 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 28

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Den he take bof han's en gin a big pull, but, all de same, Brer Tarrypin ain't budge.

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**Who acts:** den, Brer · **What happens:** take, not be · **To what, where:** Den

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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, Brer), 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:pg2306:29:28
# text = Den he take bof han's en gin a big pull, but, all de same, Brer Tarrypin ain't budge.
1	Den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	bof	bof	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	gin	gin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	pull	pull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	all	all	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	de	de	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Vrnc|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	budge	budge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | den | Den |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument gin=Theme pull=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | Brer |  |  |  |  | budge *property* | 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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