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title: Den he draw back en down he come ag'in--blam! — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den he draw back en down he come ag'in--blam! Who acts: ai. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 25

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Den he draw back en down he come ag'in--blam!

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**Who acts:** ai · **What happens:** draw back, come, blam · **To what, where:** en, ag'in

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ai), 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:pg2306:33:25
# text = Den he draw back en down he come ag'in--blam!
1	Den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	draw	draw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	ag'in	ag'in	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	blam	blam	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw back** | present | ai | en |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | ai | ag'in |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ag'in=Theme |
| 3 | **blam** | present | ai *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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