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title: Brer Rabbit wuz gone, en Brer Tarrypin wuz gone, en Miss Meadows en… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Rabbit wuz gone, en Brer Tarrypin wuz gone, en Miss Meadows en de gals wuz gone. Who acts: Miss Meadows, en de gals. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 30

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Brer Rabbit wuz gone, en Brer Tarrypin wuz gone, en Miss Meadows en de gals wuz gone.

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**Who acts:** Miss Meadows, en de gals · **What happens:** gal, wuz

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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 (Miss Meadows, en de gals), 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:pg2306:13:30
# text = Brer Rabbit wuz gone, en Brer Tarrypin wuz gone, en Miss Meadows en de gals wuz gone.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	en	en	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
13	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Meadows	Meadow	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	gals	gal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
19	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gal** |  | Miss Meadows |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wuz** | present | en de gals |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |

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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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