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title: En den atter dat, me en Miss Sally tuck en nuss de man right straigh… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: En den atter dat, me en Miss Sally tuck en nuss de man right straight along. Who acts: En atter dat, en nuss. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 131

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En den atter dat, me en Miss Sally tuck en nuss de man right straight along.

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**Who acts:** En atter dat, en nuss · **What happens:** tuck, man

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (En atter dat, en nuss), 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:pg2306:46:131
# text = En den atter dat, me en Miss Sally tuck en nuss de man right straight along.
1	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	compound	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	tuck	tuck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	nuss	nuss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	compound	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
15	right	right	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	along	along	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tuck** | present | En atter dat and me en |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **man** |  | en nuss |  |  |  |  |  | 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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