--- title: Brer Rabbit b'ilt 'im a straw house, en hit wuz tored down; den he m… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Brer Rabbit b'ilt 'im a straw house, en hit wuz tored down; den he made a house out'n pine-tops, en dat went de same way; den he made 'im a bark house, en dat wuz raided on, en eve'y time he los' a house he los' one er his chilluns. Who acts: en, den, en dat, en dat wuz. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (en, den, en dat, en dat wuz), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:16:12 # text = Brer Rabbit b'ilt 'im a straw house, en hit wuz tored down; den he made a house out'n pine-tops, en dat went de same way; den he made 'im a bark house, en dat wuz raided on, en eve'y time he los' a house he los' one er his chilluns. 1 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 Rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 b'ilt b'ilt NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:desc _ _ 4 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 im im ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 wuz wuz X FW Foreign=Yes 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 tored tor VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 xcomp _ _ 14 down down ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 out'n out'n ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 22 pine pine NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 tops top NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 29 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 33 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 36 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 im im VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 43 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 45 raided raid VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 acl _ _ 46 on on ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 48 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ _ 49 eve'y eve'y NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 conj _ _ 51 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 52 los los VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 57 punct _ _ 54 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ _ 56 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 57 los los VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 58 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 59 punct _ _ 59 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 57 obj _ _ 60 er er ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 61 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 62 nmod:poss _ _ 62 chilluns chillun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 59 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 63 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hit** | past | en | Brer Rabbit b'ilt | | | | im a straw house | tree rules | | 2 | **tor down** | participle · passive | | wuz | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | past | den | a house | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset house=Beneficiary top=Product | | 4 | **go** | past | en dat | de same way | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **make** | past | den | en dat wuz and en and eve'y time | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **im** | infinitive | en dat wuz and en and eve'y time *not said here* | a bark house | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **raid on** | participle | | en dat wuz and en and eve'y time *not said here* | | | | | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **los** | past | den | eve'y time *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **los** | past | a house | one | | | | er en's chilluns | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/16/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/16/13/) - ↑ back to [XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/16/)