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title: Brer Rabbit tuck'n 'low dat he wuz gwineter drap in en see Miss Mead… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Rabbit tuck'n 'low dat he wuz gwineter drap in en see Miss Meadows en de gals, en he got out his piece er lookin'-glass en primp up, he did, en sot out. Who acts: wuz gwineter, dat, glass en, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin App
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 3

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Brer Rabbit tuck'n 'low dat he wuz gwineter drap in en see Miss Meadows en de gals, en he got out his piece er lookin'-glass en primp up, he did, en sot out.

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**Who acts:** wuz gwineter, dat, glass en, en · **What happens:** see, get out, primp up, do out · **To what, where:** Miss Meadows en, en, en sot

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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 gwineter, dat, glass en, 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:pg2306:13:3
# text = Brer Rabbit tuck'n 'low dat he wuz gwineter drap in en see Miss Meadows en de gals, en he got out his piece er lookin'-glass en primp up, he did, en sot out.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tuck'n	tuck'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	drap	drap	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	Meadows	Meadow	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	compound	_	_
16	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	flat:foreign	_	_
18	gals	gal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	er	er	X	GW	_	32	punct	_	_
27	lookin	lookin	X	NN	_	26	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	primp	primp	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	parataxis	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	sot	sot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
40	out	out	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | wuz gwineter *not said here* | Miss Meadows en and gals and en |  | en |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer en=Stimulus |
| 2 | **get out** | past | dat | en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **primp up** | infinitive | glass en |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do out** | past | en | en sot |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sot=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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