--- title: "Den Brer Rabbit kick up a racket, like he wer' drivin' sumpin' out,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "Den Brer Rabbit kick up a racket, like he wer' drivin' sumpin' out, en Mr. Buzzard he rush 'roun' fer ter ketch de squir'l, en Brer Rabbit, he dash out, he did, en he des fly fer home." Who acts: Den, Buzzard, wer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/10/55/) [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/) / [VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/10/) / 55 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 55 "Den Brer Rabbit kick up a racket, like he wer' drivin' sumpin' out, en Mr. Buzzard he rush 'roun' fer ter ketch de squir'l, en Brer Rabbit, he dash out, he did, en he des fly fer home." **Who acts:** Den, Buzzard, wer · **What happens:** kick up, rush, dash out, do, fly · **To what, where:** racket, roun, fer 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 (Den, Buzzard, wer), 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:pg2306:10:55 # text = "Den Brer Rabbit kick up a racket, like he wer' drivin' sumpin' out, en Mr. Buzzard he rush 'roun' fer ter ketch de squir'l, en Brer Rabbit, he dash out, he did, en he des fly fer home." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Den Den PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 5 kick kick VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 racket racket NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 wer wer NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 14 drivin drivin NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 16 sumpin sumpin NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 out out ADP RP _ 16 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 21 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:desc _ _ 22 Buzzard Buzzard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 rush rush VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 amod _ _ 29 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 ketch ketch NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 31 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 32 compound _ _ 32 squir'l squir'l NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 35 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 appos _ _ 36 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 dash dash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 40 out out ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 46 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 47 des des DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 48 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 49 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ _ 50 home home ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kick up** *in a quote* | infinitive | Den | a racket | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent racket=Patient | | 2 | **rush** *in a quote* | infinitive | Buzzard Mr. | roun and fer ter ketch and de squir'l and en | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme roun=Trajectory | | 3 | **dash out** *in a quote* | infinitive | Buzzard | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Buzzard | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **fly** *in a quote* | infinitive | wer | fer | | | | home *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fer=Theme | 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 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/10/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/10/56/) - ↑ back to [VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/10/)