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title: Den atterwuds, de ker'ner, he come 'roun', an' he tuck'n gin it out… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den atterwuds, de ker'ner, he come 'roun', an' he tuck'n gin it out dat Jim died sorter accidental like. Who acts: Den atterwuds, hump, Jim. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, sentence 16

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Den atterwuds, de ker'ner, he come 'roun', an' he tuck'n gin it out dat Jim died sorter accidental like.

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**Who acts:** Den atterwuds, hump, Jim · **What happens:** come, gin out, die · **To what, where:** roun, sorter

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den atterwuds, hump, Jim), 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:pg2306:47:16
# text = Den atterwuds, de ker'ner, he come 'roun', an' he tuck'n gin it out dat Jim died sorter accidental like.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	atterwuds	atterwud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	compound	_	_
5	ker'ner	ker'ner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	tuck'n	tuck'n	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	gin	gin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
19	dat	dat	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	Jim	Jim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
22	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	accidental	accidental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
24	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | Den atterwuds and de ker'ner | roun |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location roun=Theme |
| 2 | **gin out** | infinitive | hump | roun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **die** | past | Jim | sorter |  |  |  |  | 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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