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title: "Den Brer Rabbit call in his neighbors, he did, en dey hilt a reg'la… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Den Brer Rabbit call in his neighbors, he did, en dey hilt a reg'lar juberlee; en ef you go ter Brer Rabbit's house right now, I dunno but w'at you'll fine Brer Wolfs hide hangin' in de back- po'ch, en all bekaze he wuz so bizzy wid udder fo'kses doin's." Who acts: Den, you, Brer Wolfs, bekaze. A s
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 63

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"Den Brer Rabbit call in his neighbors, he did, en dey hilt a reg'lar juberlee; en ef you go ter Brer Rabbit's house right now, I dunno but w'at you'll fine Brer Wolfs hide hangin' in de back- po'ch, en all bekaze he wuz so bizzy wid udder fo'kses doin's."

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**Who acts:** Den, you, Brer Wolfs, bekaze, bizzy wid udder · **What happens:** do, go, hide, wuz, fo'ks · **To what, where:** dey hilt, en ef, hangin, de po'ch, doin

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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, you, Brer Wolfs, bekaze), 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:pg2306:16:63
# text = "Den Brer Rabbit call in his neighbors, he did, en dey hilt a reg'lar juberlee; en ef you go ter Brer Rabbit's house right now, I dunno but w'at you'll fine Brer Wolfs hide hangin' in de back- po'ch, en all bekaze he wuz so bizzy wid udder fo'kses doin's."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	hilt	hilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	reg'lar	reg'lar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	juberlee	juberlee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	right	right	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	dunno	dunno	ADV	RB	_	11	conj	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	acl	_	_
39	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	Wolfs	Wolf	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
41	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	parataxis	_	_
42	hangin	hangin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
45	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	48	compound	_	_
46	back	back	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	_
48	po'ch	po'ch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
50	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
51	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	52	det	_	_
52	bekaze	bekaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	_
55	so	so	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	bizzy	bizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
57	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	udder	udder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nsubj	_	_
59	fo'kses	fo'ks	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	acl:relcl	_	_
60	doin	doin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	's	's	PART	POS	_	60	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	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* | past | Den | dey hilt |  |  |  | en ef *obl:unmarked* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hilt=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | present | you | en ef *not said here* |  |  | now | ter Brer Rabbit's house | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ef=Theme |
| 3 | **hide** *in a quote* | present | Brer Wolfs | hangin |  | de po'ch and en and wuz |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hangin=Patient in po'ch=Location |
| 4 | **wuz** *in a quote* |  | all bekaze |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fo'ks** *in a quote* | present | bizzy wid udder | doin |  |  |  |  | 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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