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title: He trot up ter de do' en stan' dar pawin' de ground en chompin' de b… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He trot up ter de do' en stan' dar pawin' de ground en chompin' de bit same like sho 'nuff hoss, en Brer Rabbit he mount, he did, en dey amble off. Who acts: ter, nuff hoss. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, with 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 58

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He trot up ter de do' en stan' dar pawin' de ground en chompin' de bit same like sho 'nuff hoss, en Brer Rabbit he mount, he did, en dey amble off.

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**Who acts:** ter, nuff hoss · **What happens:** trot up, do, mount, amble off · **To what, where:** ter, Rabbit mount, en dey

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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 (ter, nuff hoss), 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:pg2306:9:58
# text = He trot up ter de do' en stan' dar pawin' de ground en chompin' de bit same like sho 'nuff hoss, en Brer Rabbit he mount, he did, en dey amble off.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	trot	trot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	obl	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
9	stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	dar	dar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	pawin	pawin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
15	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	chompin	chompin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	compound	_	_
20	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	appos	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	sho	sho	NOUN	NN	_	21	obl	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	nuff	nuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	hoss	hoss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	mount	mount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
39	amble	amble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
40	off	off	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trot up** | infinitive | ter | ter |  |  |  | de *obl* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ter=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | ter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mount** |  | ter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | past | ter | Rabbit mount *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mount=Eventuality |
| 5 | **amble off** | present | nuff hoss and en and Rabbit mount *not said here* | en dey |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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