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title: Den de man say he'll cut 'er open en see, en den he whirl in, en twa… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den de man say he'll cut 'er open en see, en den he whirl in, en twan't no time 'fo' he had 'er intruls spread out. Who acts: Den man, man, open en, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 32

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Den de man say he'll cut 'er open en see, en den he whirl in, en twan't no time 'fo' he had 'er intruls spread out.

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**Who acts:** Den man, man, open en, en, intruls · **What happens:** say, cut, see, whirl, have, spread out · **To what, where:** en den · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Den man, man, open en, en), 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:pg2306:37:32
# text = Den de man say he'll cut 'er open en see, en den he whirl in, en twan't no time 'fo' he had 'er intruls spread out.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	er	er	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
10	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	whirl	whirl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
18	in	in	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	twa	twa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	29	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	er	er	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	intruls	intrul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Den man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **cut** | future | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | open en | en den |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **whirl** | present | en |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past | en |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **spread out** | present | intruls |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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