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title: He des rack off, he did, en keep his mouf shet, en Brer Rabbit know'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He des rack off, he did, en keep his mouf shet, en Brer Rabbit know'd der wuz bizness cookin' up fer him, en he feel monstus skittish. Who acts: Brer, en, mouf shet. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, with its dependency 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 23

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He des rack off, he did, en keep his mouf shet, en Brer Rabbit know'd der wuz bizness cookin' up fer him, en he feel monstus skittish.

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**Who acts:** Brer, en, mouf shet · **What happens:** de, rack off, do, keep, know, feel · **To what, where:** en

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer, en, mouf shet), 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:pg2306:10:23
# text = He des rack off, he did, en keep his mouf shet, en Brer Rabbit know'd der wuz bizness cookin' up fer him, en he feel monstus skittish.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	des	de	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	rack	rack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mouf	mouf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	shet	shet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
21	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	bizness	bizness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	cookin	cookin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	up	up	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	_
32	monstus	monstus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	skittish	skittish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **de** | present | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rack off** | infinitive | Brer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | past | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **keep** | infinitive | en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | present | Brer's mouf shet and en |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **feel** | infinitive | Brer | en *not said here* |  |  |  | skittish *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=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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