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title: Dis zackly w'at Brer Rabbit waitin' fer, en he no sooner seed ole Mi… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dis zackly w'at Brer Rabbit waitin' fer, en he no sooner seed ole Miss Cow all fas'en'd up dan he jump up, he did, en cut de pidjin-wing. Who acts: seed, C'ose. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, with its depende
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 28

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Dis zackly w'at Brer Rabbit waitin' fer, en he no sooner seed ole Miss Cow all fas'en'd up dan he jump up, he did, en cut de pidjin-wing.

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**Who acts:** seed, C'ose · **What happens:** cow, ' up, jump up, do · **To what, where:** 'd dan, fas'en

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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 (seed, C'ose), 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:pg2306:12:28
# text = Dis zackly w'at Brer Rabbit waitin' fer, en he no sooner seed ole Miss Cow all fas'en'd up dan he jump up, he did, en cut de pidjin-wing.
1	Dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	zackly	zackly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	waitin	waitin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	no	no	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
14	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	fas'en	fas'en	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'd	'	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	dan	dan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
32	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	35	compound	_	_
33	pidjin	pidjin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **cow** |  | seed |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **' up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **jump up** | infinitive | C'ose | 'd dan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dan=Trajectory |
| 4 | **do** | past | C'ose | all fas'en  'd dan and en cut and de pidjin wing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fas'en=Eventuality |

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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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