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title: Bless yo' soul, honey, Brer Rabbit went skippin' long home, he did,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Bless yo' soul, honey, Brer Rabbit went skippin' long home, he did, des ez sassy ez a jay-bird at a sparrer's nes'. Who acts: you, Brer Rabbit, Rabbit, ez. 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 dependency t
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 4

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Bless yo' soul, honey, Brer Rabbit went skippin' long home, he did, des ez sassy ez a jay-bird at a sparrer's nes'.

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**Who acts:** you, Brer Rabbit, Rabbit, ez · **What happens:** bless, go, do, bird · **To what, where:** yo soul, skippin long home, nes

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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 (you, Brer Rabbit, Rabbit, ez), 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:pg2306:12:4
# text = Bless yo' soul, honey, Brer Rabbit went skippin' long home, he did, des ez sassy ez a jay-bird at a sparrer's nes'.
1	Bless	bless	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	skippin	skippin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	des	des	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
20	ez	ez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
21	sassy	sassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
22	ez	ez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	nsubj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	jay	jay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sparrer	sparrer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	nes	ne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bless** | imperative | you *not said here* | yo soul and honey |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | Brer Rabbit | skippin long home |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location home=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past | Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bird** |  | ez |  |  | a sparrer's nes |  |  | 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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