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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 42

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"Den Brer Rabbit went ter de cubberd en git de gimlet, en commence for ter bo' little holes in de chist-lid.

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**Who acts:** Den, ter, gimlet · **What happens:** go, git, commence · **To what, where:** cubberd en git

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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, ter, gimlet), 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:pg2306:16:42
# text = "Den Brer Rabbit went ter de cubberd en git de gimlet, en commence for ter bo' little holes in de chist-lid.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	nsubj	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat:foreign	_	_
8	cubberd	cubberd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	gimlet	gimlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	commence	commence	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	bo	bo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	appos	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	chist	chist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | past | Den |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **git** *in a quote* |  | ter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **commence** *in a quote* | present | de's gimlet and en | cubberd en git *not said here* |  |  |  | for ter bo | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent git=Eventuality |

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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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