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title: "Den Brer Rabbit git de kittle en fill it full er water, en put it o… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Den Brer Rabbit git de kittle en fill it full er water, en put it on de fier. Who acts: Den kittle en, 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 39

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"Den Brer Rabbit git de kittle en fill it full er water, en put it on de fier.

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**Who acts:** Den kittle en, en · **What happens:** fill, put · **To what, where:** smellin, de fier

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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 (Den kittle en, 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:pg2306:16:39
# text = "Den Brer Rabbit git de kittle en fill it full er water, en put it on de fier.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
7	kittle	kittle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fill	fill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	compound	_	_
20	fier	fier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** *in a quote* | present | Den kittle en | smellin |  |  |  | full *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **put** *in a quote* | past | en | smellin |  | de fier |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on fier=Destination |

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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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