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title: "Wid dat dey put out, en dey went promernadin' 'roun' 'mong de cattl… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Wid dat dey put out, en dey went promernadin' 'roun' 'mong de cattle, dey did, twel bimeby dey struck up wid de one dey wuz atter. Who acts: Wid dat dey, en dey, dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, with its dependency 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 20

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"Wid dat dey put out, en dey went promernadin' 'roun' 'mong de cattle, dey did, twel bimeby dey struck up wid de one dey wuz atter.

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**Who acts:** Wid dat dey, en dey, dey · **What happens:** put out, go, do, strike up · **To what, where:** mong, bimeby dey

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wid dat dey, en dey, dey), 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:pg2306:37:20
# text = "Wid dat dey put out, en dey went promernadin' 'roun' 'mong de cattle, dey did, twel bimeby dey struck up wid de one dey wuz atter.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wid	Wid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	promernadin	promernadin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	'	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	mong	mong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
18	de	de	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
30	de	de	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
32	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put out** *in a quote* | participle | Wid dat dey |  |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | past | en dey | promernadin's roun's mong |  |  |  | de cattle | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mong=Theme |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | past | dey | bimeby dey |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dey=Eventuality |
| 4 | **strike up** *in a quote* | participle |  | bimeby dey *not said here* |  |  |  | de one wuz atter | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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