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title: "En wid dat, Mr. Man, he go off, he did, down in de bushes atter han… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "En wid dat, Mr. Man, he go off, he did, down in de bushes atter han'ful er switches. Who acts: En wid dat, dat, atter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 25

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"En wid dat, Mr. Man, he go off, he did, down in de bushes atter han'ful er switches.

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**Who acts:** En wid dat, dat, atter · **What happens:** go off, do, switch · **To what, where:** de bushes

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (En wid dat, dat, atter), 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:pg2306:32:25
# text = "En wid dat, Mr. Man, he go off, he did, down in de bushes atter han'ful er switches.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	_
7	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	han'ful	han'ful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	switches	switch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go off** *in a quote* | infinitive | En wid dat |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | past | dat |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **switch** *in a quote* |  | atter | de bushes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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