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title: Brer Rabbit know mighty well dat Miss Cow won't give 'im no milk, ka… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Rabbit know mighty well dat Miss Cow won't give 'im no milk, kaze she done 'fuse 'im mo'n once, en w'en his ole 'oman wuz sick, at dat. Who acts: Brer. 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 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 6

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Brer Rabbit know mighty well dat Miss Cow won't give 'im no milk, kaze she done 'fuse 'im mo'n once, en w'en his ole 'oman wuz sick, at dat.

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**Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** know, not give, do · **To what, where:** fuse im mo'n

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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 (Brer), 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:pg2306:12:6
# text = Brer Rabbit know mighty well dat Miss Cow won't give 'im no milk, kaze she done 'fuse 'im mo'n once, en w'en his ole 'oman wuz sick, at dat.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	mighty	mighty	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
6	dat	dat	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
9	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	im	im	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	done	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	fuse	fuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	im	im	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	mo'n	mo'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
25	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
28	w'en	w'en	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	30	dep	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	ole	ole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	oman	oman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
34	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **know** | present | Brer |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **give** | future |  |  |  |  |  | dat Miss Cow | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **do** | past | Brer | fuse im mo'n |  |  |  | im no milk and kaze; en  ole oman wuz *obl*; once *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mo'n=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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