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title: Den Brer Rabbit sot dar long time, he did, turnin' his mine over en… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Brer Rabbit sot dar long time, he did, turnin' his mine over en wukken his thinkin' masheen. Who acts: dat, en. 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 34

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Den Brer Rabbit sot dar long time, he did, turnin' his mine over en wukken his thinkin' masheen.

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**Who acts:** dat, en · **What happens:** do, turnin, wukken · **To what, where:** mine, en, masheen

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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 (dat, en), 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:pg2306:16:34
# text = Den Brer Rabbit sot dar long time, he did, turnin' his mine over en wukken his thinkin' masheen.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	sot	sot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	turnin	turnin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	mine	mine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	wukken	wukken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	thinkin	thinkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	masheen	masheen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | dat |  |  |  | time |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **turnin** | gerund | dat *not said here* | dat's mine |  | en |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wukken** | participle | en *not said here* | dat's thinkin's masheen |  |  |  |  | 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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