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title: Every time he hump hisse'f Brer Rabbit slap de spurrers in 'im, en d… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Every time he hump hisse'f Brer Rabbit slap de spurrers in 'im, en dar dey had it, up en down. Who acts: en dar dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 29

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Every time he hump hisse'f Brer Rabbit slap de spurrers in 'im, en dar dey had it, up en down.

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**Who acts:** en dar dey · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** hisse'f

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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 (en dar dey), 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:pg2306:10:29
# text = Every time he hump hisse'f Brer Rabbit slap de spurrers in 'im, en dar dey had it, up en down.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	hisse'f	hisse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	slap	slap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	de	de	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	spurrers	spurrer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	down	down	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | en dar dey | hisse'f |  |  |  |  | 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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