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title: "En down ter dis day"--continued Uncle Remus, watching the smoke fro… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "En down ter dis day"--continued Uncle Remus, watching the smoke from his pipe curl upward over the little boy's head--"down ter dis day, Brer Possum's bound ter s'render w'en you tech him in de short ribs, en he'll laugh ef he knows he's gwineter be smashed fer it." Who acts: En, ter dis day, bound
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 41

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"En down ter dis day"--continued Uncle Remus, watching the smoke from his pipe curl upward over the little boy's head--"down ter dis day, Brer Possum's bound ter s'render w'en you tech him in de short ribs, en he'll laugh ef he knows he's gwineter be smashed fer it."

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**Who acts:** En, ter dis day, bound s'render w'en · **What happens:** day, continue, watch, curl, tech, laugh · **To what, where:** Uncle Remus, smoke, pipe, head, en, short ribs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (En, ter dis day, bound s'render w'en), 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:pg2306:6:41
# text = "En down ter dis day"--continued Uncle Remus, watching the smoke from his pipe curl upward over the little boy's head--"down ter dis day, Brer Possum's bound ter s'render w'en you tech him in de short ribs, en he'll laugh ef he knows he's gwineter be smashed fer it."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	En	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
10	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	curl	curl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	down	down	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
30	ter	ter	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
34	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	bound	bound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
38	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	s'render	s'render	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	tech	tech	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	47	nsubj	_	_
46	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	ribs	rib	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	acl:relcl	_	_
53	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	acl:relcl	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
58	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nsubj:pass	_	_
59	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	60	aux:pass	_	_
60	smashed	smash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	55	ccomp	_	_
61	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obj	_	_
62	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **day** *in a quote* |  | En |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **continue** | participle | ter dis day *not said here* | Uncle Remus |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent remus=Theme |
| 3 | **watch** | gerund | ter dis day *not said here* | the smoke |  | en's pipe |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smoke=Theme |
| 4 | **curl** | present | ter dis day |  |  | the little boy's head |  | down, upward *property* | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Destination |
| 5 | **tech** *in a quote* | present | Brer Possum's bound s'render w'en | en |  | short ribs and en |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **laugh** *in a quote* | future | en | ef |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ef=Theme |
| 7 | **know** *in a quote* | present | en | ef *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **smash** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | en |  |  |  |  | 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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