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title: He tore down de well shelter and fo' pannils er fence, an' de groun'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He tore down de well shelter and fo' pannils er fence, an' de groun' look like wunner deze yer harrycanes had lit dar and fanned up de yeath." Who acts: riz, pannils, wunner deze. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. As a Murderer, with its dependency 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 28

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He tore down de well shelter and fo' pannils er fence, an' de groun' look like wunner deze yer harrycanes had lit dar and fanned up de yeath."

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**Who acts:** riz, pannils, wunner deze · **What happens:** tore down, shelter, fo, look, lit, fan up · **To what, where:** harrycanes, de yeath

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. As a Murderer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (riz, pannils, wunner deze), 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:pg2306:58:28
# text = He tore down de well shelter and fo' pannils er fence, an' de groun' look like wunner deze yer harrycanes had lit dar and fanned up de yeath."
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	de	de	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	shelter	shelter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fo	fo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	pannils	pannil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
11	er	er	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
17	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	wunner	wunner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	deze	deze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	harrycanes	harrycane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	xcomp	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	fanned	fan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	32	compound	_	_
32	yeath	yeath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tore down** | past | riz |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shelter** | infinitive | riz *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fo** | infinitive | riz *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | infinitive | pannils and er fence |  |  |  |  | like wunner deze | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **lit** | past · perfect · passive | wunner deze *not said here* | yer's harrycanes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fan up** | past | riz *not said here* | de yeath |  |  |  |  | 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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