--- title: "En w'en he got in de big road, he shuck de dew off'n his tail, en m… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "En w'en he got in de big road, he shuck de dew off'n his tail, en made a straight shoot fer Brer Rabbit's house. Who acts: En w'en, w'en, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, with its dependency tree and the pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/9/24/) [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/) / [VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/9/) / 24 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 24 "En w'en he got in de big road, he shuck de dew off'n his tail, en made a straight shoot fer Brer Rabbit's house. **Who acts:** En w'en, w'en, en · **What happens:** get in, shuck, make · **To what, where:** de big road, de dew, straight shoot fer This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (En w'en, w'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:pg2306:9:24 # text = "En w'en he got in de big road, he shuck de dew off'n his tail, en made a straight shoot fer Brer Rabbit's house. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 En En PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 shuck shuck VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 dew dew NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 off'n off'n CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 shoot shoot NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 25 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get in** *in a quote* | past | En w'en | de big road | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus | | 2 | **shuck** *in a quote* | present | w'en | de dew off'n w'en's tail | | | | | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dew=Source | | 3 | **make** *in a quote* | past | en | a straight shoot fer | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fer=Product | 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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/9/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/9/25/) - ↑ back to [VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/9/)