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title: "By dis time Brer Rabbit done come ter de do', wid his head tied up… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "By dis time Brer Rabbit done come ter de do', wid his head tied up in a red hankcher. Who acts: you. 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 33

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"By dis time Brer Rabbit done come ter de do', wid his head tied up in a red hankcher.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** do, come, wid, tie up · **To what, where:** Brer Rabbit, ter, head, red hankcher

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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 (you), 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:pg2306:14:33
# text = "By dis time Brer Rabbit done come ter de do', wid his head tied up in a red hankcher.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	flat:foreign	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	',	',	X	GW	_	13	punct	_	_
13	wid	wid	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hankcher	hankcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | participle |  | Brer Rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | ter |  |  | time |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ter=Theme |
| 3 | **wid** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | Rabbit's head |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tie up** *in a quote* | participle | you *not said here* |  |  | a red hankcher |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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