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title: Do please, Brer Rabbit! de dogs is atter me, en dey 'll t'ar me up. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Do please, Brer Rabbit! de dogs is atter me, en dey 'll t'ar me up. Who acts: Brer Rabbit, en dey. 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 23

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Do please, Brer Rabbit! de dogs is atter me, en dey 'll t'ar me up.

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**Who acts:** Brer Rabbit, en dey · **What happens:** do, be, t'ar up · **To what, where:** me

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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 (Brer Rabbit, en dey), 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:pg2306:16:23
# text = Do please, Brer Rabbit! de dogs is atter me, en dey 'll t'ar me up.
1	Do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
2	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	atter	atter	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	t'ar	t'ar	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | infinitive | Brer Rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Brer Rabbit |  |  |  |  | atter *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **t'ar up** | future | en dey | me |  |  |  |  | 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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