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title: Den he spit in his han's, en give 'er a big swing en down she come--… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den he spit in his han's, en give 'er a big swing en down she come--kerblap! Who acts: ai, dat. 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 27

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Den he spit in his han's, en give 'er a big swing en down she come--kerblap!

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**Who acts:** ai, dat · **What happens:** spit, come · **To what, where:** han, kerblap

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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, dat), 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:pg2306:33:27
# text = Den he spit in his han's, en give 'er a big swing en down she come--kerblap!
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	spit	spit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	give	give	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	er	er	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	kerblap	kerblap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spit** | present | ai |  |  | ai's han |  | er a big swing en | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | dat | kerblap |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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