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title: Mr. Fox ketch de Rabbit, en he scratch um en he claws um-- (Hey O! — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Fox ketch de Rabbit, en he scratch um en he claws um-- (Hey O! Who acts: Rabbit. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 59

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Mr. Fox ketch de Rabbit, en he scratch um en he claws um-- (Hey O!

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**Who acts:** Rabbit · **What happens:** scratch, claw · **To what, where:** Fox ketch

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rabbit), 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:pg2306:41:59
# text = Mr. Fox ketch de Rabbit, en he scratch um en he claws um-- (Hey O!
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	de	de	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	scratch	scratch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	parataxis	_	_
14	um	um	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Hey	hey	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
18	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scratch** | present | Rabbit | Fox ketch  Mr. de Rabbit and en |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme |
| 2 | **claw** |  | Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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