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title: "Wid dat de man tuck a stick and lam down on de maul so hard dat he… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Wid dat de man tuck a stick and lam down on de maul so hard dat he kill Brer Fox stone-dead. Who acts: man. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 38

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"Wid dat de man tuck a stick and lam down on de maul so hard dat he kill Brer Fox stone-dead.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** tuck, lam down, kill · **To what, where:** stick, maul, Brer Fox · **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 (man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2306:1541`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:37:38
# text = "Wid dat de man tuck a stick and lam down on de maul so hard dat he kill Brer Fox stone-dead.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	Wid	wid	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	dat	dat	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	_
4	de	de	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tuck	tuck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	lam	lam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	de	de	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	maul	maul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
17	dat	dat	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	kill	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tuck** *in a quote* | past | de man | a stick |  |  |  | wid dat | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stick=Theme |
| 2 | **lam down** *in a quote* | past | de man *not said here* |  |  | de maul |  | down, hard *property* | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on maul=Location |
| 3 | **kill** *in a quote* | past | man | Brer Fox |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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