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title: He can't leave home 'cep' Brer Wolf 'ud make a raid en tote off some… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He can't leave home 'cep' Brer Wolf 'ud make a raid en tote off some er de fambly. Who acts: Rabbit, ud. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 11

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He can't leave home 'cep' Brer Wolf 'ud make a raid en tote off some er de fambly.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, ud · **What happens:** not leave, make · **To what, where:** home, en tote

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rabbit, ud), 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:pg2306:16:11
# text = He can't leave home 'cep' Brer Wolf 'ud make a raid en tote off some er de fambly.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	cep	cep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	'	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	ud	ud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	raid	raid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	tote	tote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
21	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	flat:foreign	_	_
22	fambly	fambly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **leave** | can | Rabbit | home |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent home=Theme cep=Attribute |
| 2 | **make** | present | Brer's ud | a en tote |  |  |  | fambly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tote=Product |

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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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