--- title: Las' Brer Rabbit got mad, he did, en cusst, en den he went off, he d… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Las' Brer Rabbit got mad, he did, en cusst, en den he went off, he did, en got some kyarpinters, en dey b'ilt 'im a plank house wid rock foundashuns. Who acts: Las, Rabbit, en. 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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 (Las, Rabbit, en), 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:pg2306:16:13 # text = Las' Brer Rabbit got mad, he did, en cusst, en den he went off, he did, en got some kyarpinters, en dey b'ilt 'im a plank house wid rock foundashuns. 1 Las la NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 cusst cusst NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 off off ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 25 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 26 det _ _ 26 kyarpinters kyarpinter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 b'ilt b'ilt NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 31 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 im im ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 plank plank NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 36 wid wid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 37 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 foundashuns foundashun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | Las Brer Rabbit | | | | | mad *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **do** | past | Rabbit | en cusst | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cusst=Eventuality | | 3 | **go off** | past | Rabbit | en den *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **do** | past | Rabbit | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **get** | past | en | some kyarpinters | | | | im a plank house | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent kyarpinter=Beneficiary foundashun=Theme | 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/16/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/16/14/) - ↑ back to [XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/16/)