--- title: I tuck'n got all de cattle en hosses tergedder en driv' um ter de fo… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: I tuck'n got all de cattle en hosses tergedder en driv' um ter de fo'-mile place, en I tuck all de corn en fodder en w'eat, en put um in a crib out dar in de woods; en I bilt me a pen in de swamp, en dar I put de hogs. Who acts: I, de corn en, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Saying --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/46/85/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [A Story of the War](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/46/) / 85 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 85 I tuck'n got all de cattle en hosses tergedder en driv' um ter de fo'-mile place, en I tuck all de corn en fodder en w'eat, en put um in a crib out dar in de woods; en I bilt me a pen in de swamp, en dar I put de hogs. **Who acts:** I, de corn en, en · **What happens:** get, tuck, w'eat, put out, bilt, put · **To what, where:** cattle en hosses, en, um, crib, me, de swamp 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 (I, de corn en, en), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:46:85 # text = I tuck'n got all de cattle en hosses tergedder en driv' um ter de fo'-mile place, en I tuck all de corn en fodder en w'eat, en put um in a crib out dar in de woods; en I bilt me a pen in de swamp, en dar I put de hogs. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 tuck'n tuck'n NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 all all ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 6 cattle cattle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 hosses hoss NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 9 tergedder tergedder NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 driv driv NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 13 um um X FW _ 14 compound _ _ 14 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 15 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 14 flat:foreign _ _ 16 fo for ADP IN Abbr=Yes 20 case _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 mile mile NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 tuck tuck VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 31 det _ _ 26 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 fodder fodder NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 w'eat w'eat NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ _ 35 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 crib crib NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 out out ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 40 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ; ; PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 45 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 46 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 bilt bilt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 acl:relcl _ _ 48 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 47 obj _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 pen pen NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ _ 51 in in ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 53 swamp swamp NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 55 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 compound _ _ 56 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ _ 57 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 58 nsubj _ _ 58 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 56 acl:relcl _ _ 59 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 compound _ _ 60 hogs hog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 58 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 61 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | I | cattle en hosses and en driv | | | | all, de *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hoss=Stimulus | | 2 | **tuck** | present | I | en *not said here* | | | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent en=Theme | | 3 | **w'eat** | | de corn en | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **put out** | participle | en *not said here* | um | | a crib | | in de woods | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent um=Asset dar=Goal | | 5 | **bilt** | past | I | me | | de swamp | | | tree rules | | 6 | **put** | past | I | de hogs | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hog=Goal | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/46/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/46/86/) - ↑ back to [A Story of the War](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/46/)