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title: Hongry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hongry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum. Who acts: Hongry rooster, Rooster. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 54

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Hongry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.

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**Who acts:** Hongry rooster, Rooster · **What happens:** not cackle, fine · **To what, where:** w'en, wum

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hongry rooster, Rooster), 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:pg2306:38:54
# text = Hongry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.
1	Hongry	hongry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	rooster	rooster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	cackle	cackle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fine	fine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wum	wum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **cackle** | present · do-support | Hongry rooster | w'en |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent w'en=Theme |
| 2 | **fine** | past | Rooster | a wum |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wum=Recipient |

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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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