--- title: Den Brer Rabbit 'low he wuz on his way fer ter see Miss Meadows en d… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Den Brer Rabbit 'low he wuz on his way fer ter see Miss Meadows en de gals, en he ax Brer Tarrypin ef he won't jine in en go long, en Brer Tarrypin 'spon' he don't keer ef he do, en den dey sot out. Who acts: wuz, Rabbit. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/) / 12 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 12 Den Brer Rabbit 'low he wuz on his way fer ter see Miss Meadows en de gals, en he ax Brer Tarrypin ef he won't jine in en go long, en Brer Tarrypin 'spon' he don't keer ef he do, en den dey sot out. **Who acts:** wuz, Rabbit · **What happens:** see, ax, not jine, go, not keer out, do · **To what, where:** en, ef This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wuz, Rabbit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:13:12 # text = Den Brer Rabbit 'low he wuz on his way fer ter see Miss Meadows en de gals, en he ax Brer Tarrypin ef he won't jine in en go long, en Brer Tarrypin 'spon' he don't keer ef he do, en den dey sot out. 1 Den Den PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 Rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 low low ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 amod _ _ 12 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl _ _ 14 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Meadows Meadow PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 16 compound _ _ 16 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 17 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 16 flat:foreign _ _ 18 gals gal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 ax ax NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 23 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 24 Tarrypin Tarrypin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 flat _ _ 25 ef ef NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 list _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 28 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 jine jine VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 parataxis _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 32 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ _ 33 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 32 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod:poss _ _ 37 Tarrypin Tarrypin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 flat _ _ 38 ' 's PART POS _ 36 case _ SpaceAfter=No 39 spon spon NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 42 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 43 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 44 advmod _ _ 44 keer keer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 acl:relcl _ _ 45 ef ef NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 46 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 45 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 49 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 51 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 compound _ _ 52 sot sot NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ _ 53 out out ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | infinitive | wuz on Rabbit's way and Meadows en and gals and en ax *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **ax** | | Rabbit | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **jine** | future | Rabbit | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | present | | en Brer's spon | | en | | long *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in en=Location | | 5 | **not** **keer out** | infinitive · do-support | Rabbit | ef and dey sot | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **do** | present | Rabbit | ef and dey sot *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ef=Eventuality | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/13/) - ↑ back to [X. 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