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title: Brer Rabbit he skint up de chimbly--dat's w'at turnt de pot er green… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Rabbit he skint up de chimbly--dat's w'at turnt de pot er greens over. Who acts: Brer Rabbit, turnt pot er. 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 clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 33

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Brer Rabbit he skint up de chimbly--dat's w'at turnt de pot er greens over.

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**Who acts:** Brer Rabbit, turnt pot er · **What happens:** skint up, green over · **To what, where:** w'at

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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 (Brer Rabbit, turnt pot er), 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:pg2306:13:33
# text = Brer Rabbit he skint up de chimbly--dat's w'at turnt de pot er greens over.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	skint	skint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	de	de	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	chimbly	chimbly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	turnt	turnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat:foreign	_	_
14	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	greens	green	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	over	over	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	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 | **skint up** | past | Brer Rabbit |  |  |  |  | de chimbly | tree rules |
| 2 | **green over** | present | turnt pot er | dat's w'at *not said here* |  |  |  | over *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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