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title: Brer Rabbit sorter dance up long side er de fence, he did, en holler… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Rabbit sorter dance up long side er de fence, he did, en holler out: Who acts: Brer Rabbit sorter, sorter. 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 clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 8

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Brer Rabbit sorter dance up long side er de fence, he did, en holler out:

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**Who acts:** Brer Rabbit sorter, sorter · **What happens:** dance up, do out · **To what, where:** long side, en holler

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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 Rabbit sorter, sorter), 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:pg2306:12:8
# text = Brer Rabbit sorter dance up long side er de fence, he did, en holler out:
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	dance	dance	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance up** | present | Brer Rabbit sorter | long side |  |  |  | de fence *obl* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do out** | past | sorter | en holler |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holler=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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