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title: "Den w'en Brer Tarrypin feel um quit pullin', he dove down, he did,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Den w'en Brer Tarrypin feel um quit pullin', he dove down, he did, en ontie de rope, en by de time dey got ter de branch, Brer Tarrypin, he wuz settin' in de aidge er de water des ez natchul ez de nex' un, en he up'n say, sezee: Who acts: Den, dey, un up'n. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 31

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"Den w'en Brer Tarrypin feel um quit pullin', he dove down, he did, en ontie de rope, en by de time dey got ter de branch, Brer Tarrypin, he wuz settin' in de aidge er de water des ez natchul ez de nex' un, en he up'n say, sezee:

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**Who acts:** Den, dey, un up'n · **What happens:** feel, dove down, do, get, settin, up'n · **To what, where:** um quit pullin, de branch, de aidge, sezee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, un up'n), 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:pg2306:29:31
# text = "Den w'en Brer Tarrypin feel um quit pullin', he dove down, he did, en ontie de rope, en by de time dey got ter de branch, Brer Tarrypin, he wuz settin' in de aidge er de water des ez natchul ez de nex' un, en he up'n say, sezee:
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	w'en	w'en	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
6	feel	feel	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	quit	quit	X	FW	_	9	compound	_	_
9	pullin	pullin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	dove	dove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	ontie	ontie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
27	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
29	ter	ter	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
34	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	settin	settin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	42	compound	_	_
42	aidge	aidge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
43	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	45	dep	_	_
44	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	43	flat:foreign	_	_
45	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	appos	_	_
46	des	des	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	47	det	_	_
47	ez	ez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	45	conj	_	_
48	natchul	natchul	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
49	ez	ez	X	FW	_	51	compound	_	_
50	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	49	flat:foreign	_	_
51	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	51	punct	_	_
53	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
55	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	conj	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	up'n	up'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
58	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
60	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** *in a quote* | infinitive | Den | um quit pullin |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pullin=Theme |
| 2 | **dove down** *in a quote* | past | den |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | past | den |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** *in a quote* | past | dey | de branch |  |  |  | ter *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer branch=Stimulus |
| 5 | **settin** *in a quote* |  | den |  |  | de aidge |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **up'n** *in a quote* |  | den |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | un up'n | sezee |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sezee=Topic |

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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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