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title: Den Brer Wolf up'n tell 'im dat de way fer ter git de drap on Brer R… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Brer Wolf up'n tell 'im dat de way fer ter git de drap on Brer Rabbit wuz ter git 'im in Brer Fox house. Who acts: git. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 15

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Den Brer Wolf up'n tell 'im dat de way fer ter git de drap on Brer Rabbit wuz ter git 'im in Brer Fox house.

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**Who acts:** git · **What happens:** tell, drap · **To what, where:** Rabbit ter git · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (git), 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:pg2306:14:15
# text = Den Brer Wolf up'n tell 'im dat de way fer ter git de drap on Brer Rabbit wuz ter git 'im in Brer Fox house.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	up'n	up'n	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	compound	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
12	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat:foreign	_	_
15	drap	drap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
19	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drap** | present | git |  |  | Rabbit ter git and im in Brer |  |  | 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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