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title: "Den Brer Rabbit went out en git some mo' wood, en fling it on de fi… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Den Brer Rabbit went out en git some mo' wood, en fling it on de fier. Who acts: Den, hole. 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 45

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"Den Brer Rabbit went out en git some mo' wood, en fling it on de fier.

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**Who acts:** Den, hole · **What happens:** go out, fling · **To what, where:** en git, 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, hole), 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:pg2306:16:45
# text = "Den Brer Rabbit went out en git some mo' wood, en fling it on de fier.
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	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
10	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	fling	fling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	compound	_	_
19	fier	fier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** *in a quote* | past | Den | en git |  |  |  | some mo wood and en fling *obl* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fling** *in a quote* |  | hole |  |  | de fier |  |  | 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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