--- title: "Dey cut en dey kyarved, en dey kyarved en dey cut, en w'iles dey wu… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "Dey cut en dey kyarved, en dey kyarved en dey cut, en w'iles dey wuz cuttin' en kyarvin', en slashin' 'way, Brer Rabbit, he tuck'n hacked inter de haslett, en wid dat down fell de cow dead. Who acts: Dey, en dey, en, inter. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dey, en dey, en, inter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:37:26 # text = "Dey cut en dey kyarved, en dey kyarved en dey cut, en w'iles dey wuz cuttin' en kyarvin', en slashin' 'way, Brer Rabbit, he tuck'n hacked inter de haslett, en wid dat down fell de cow dead. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Dey Dey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 kyarved kyarv VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 kyarved kyarv VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 cut cut NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 w'iles w'ile VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 17 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 cuttin cuttin NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 21 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 kyarvin kyarvin NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ', ', PART POS _ 22 dep _ _ 24 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 slashin slashin NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 tuck'n tuck'n NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 hacked hack VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 36 inter inter NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 37 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 36 flat:foreign _ _ 38 haslett haslett NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 wid wid NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 43 down down ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 44 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 ccomp _ _ 45 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 47 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut** *in a quote* | past | Dey | en dey | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **kyarv** *in a quote* | past | en dey | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **kyarv** *in a quote* | participle | en dey *not said here* | dey cut | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **w'ile** *in a quote* | present | en | wuz cuttin | | | | Brer Rabbit *obl* | tree rules | | 5 | **hack** *in a quote* | past | en | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **fall** *in a quote* | past | inter and haslett and wid dat | de cow | | | | | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient cow=Result | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/37/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/37/27/) - ↑ back to [XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/37/)