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title: Gwine canterin' long de road, who should Brer Rabbit run up wid but… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Gwine canterin' long de road, who should Brer Rabbit run up wid but ole Brer Tarrypin--de same ole one-en-sixpunce. Who acts: Gwine canterin, de. 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 p
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 4

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Gwine canterin' long de road, who should Brer Rabbit run up wid but ole Brer Tarrypin--de same ole one-en-sixpunce.

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**Who acts:** Gwine canterin, de · **What happens:** run up, sixpunce

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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 (Gwine canterin, de), 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:pg2306:13:4
# text = Gwine canterin' long de road, who should Brer Rabbit run up wid but ole Brer Tarrypin--de same ole one-en-sixpunce.
1	Gwine	Gwine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	canterin	canterin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	compound	_	_
6	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	nsubj	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
22	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
23	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	sixpunce	sixpunce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run up** | present | Gwine canterin |  |  |  |  | wid *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sixpunce** |  | de |  |  |  |  |  | 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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