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title: "'Dey er eatin' me up, Brer Rabbit,' en dem wuz de las words er Brer… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Dey er eatin' me up, Brer Rabbit,' en dem wuz de las words er Brer Wolf, kase de scaldin' water done de bizness. 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 62

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"'Dey er eatin' me up, Brer Rabbit,' en dem wuz de las words er Brer Wolf, kase de scaldin' water done de bizness.

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**What happens:** do · **To what, where:** water

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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: 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:pg2306:16:62
# text = "'Dey er eatin' me up, Brer Rabbit,' en dem wuz de las words er Brer Wolf, kase de scaldin' water done de bizness.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Dey	Dey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	eatin	eatin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	conj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	flat:foreign	_	_
18	las	las	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
20	er	er	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	kase	kase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
25	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	compound	_	_
26	scaldin	scaldin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	de	de	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	bizness	bizness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | participle |  | water *not said here* |  |  |  | de bizness | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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