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title: "C'ose Miss Cow don't wanter diskommerdate Brer Rabbit, en she march… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "C'ose Miss Cow don't wanter diskommerdate Brer Rabbit, en she march up ter de 'simmon tree, she did, en hit it a rap wid 'er horns--blam! Who acts: C'ose, en, er horns. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, with it
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 20

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"C'ose Miss Cow don't wanter diskommerdate Brer Rabbit, en she march up ter de 'simmon tree, she did, en hit it a rap wid 'er horns--blam!

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**Who acts:** C'ose, en, er horns · **What happens:** not diskommerdate, march up, do, hit, blam · **To what, where:** Brer Rabbit, ter de, wanter

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (C'ose, en, er horns), 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:pg2306:12:20
# text = "C'ose Miss Cow don't wanter diskommerdate Brer Rabbit, en she march up ter de 'simmon tree, she did, en hit it a rap wid 'er horns--blam!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	C'ose	C'ose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	wanter	wanter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	diskommerdate	diskommerdate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	march	march	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	simmon	simmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	rap	rap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	blam	blam	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **diskommerdate** *in a quote* | present · do-support | C'ose | Brer Rabbit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **march up** *in a quote* | infinitive | en | ter de and simmon tree |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | past | en |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hit** *in a quote* | past | en | wanter |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent it=Patient wid=Result |
| 5 | **blam** *in a quote* | present | er horns *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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