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title: "'He des dis minit pass,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'en he look mighty… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'He des dis minit pass,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'en he look mighty sick,' sezee. Who acts: gwine, dis minit pass, en. 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 tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 62

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"'He des dis minit pass,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'en he look mighty sick,' sezee.

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**Who acts:** gwine, dis minit pass, en · **What happens:** pass, say, look · **To what, where:** Brer, sezee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (gwine, dis minit pass, en), 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:pg2306:12:62
# text = "'He des dis minit pass,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'en he look mighty sick,' sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	des	des	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	minit	minit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	pass	pass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
20	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
24	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** *in a quote* |  | gwine |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | des dis minit pass | Brer |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic |
| 3 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | en | sezee |  |  |  | sick *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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