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title: I boun' he tuck keer er dat ark. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I boun' he tuck keer er dat ark. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 28

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I boun' he tuck keer er dat ark.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** tuck · **To what, where:** keer

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg2306:8:28
# text = I boun' he tuck keer er dat ark.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	boun	boun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tuck	tuck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	keer	keer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
8	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ark	ark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tuck** | infinitive | man | keer |  |  |  | dat ark *obl* | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent keer=Theme |

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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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