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title: Dreckly he wuz outer sight, Brer Rabbit, he jump up, he did, en run… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dreckly he wuz outer sight, Brer Rabbit, he jump up, he did, en run roun' thoo de Woods en git befo Brer Fox agin. Who acts: Fox, wuz outer sight, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, with its de
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 20

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Dreckly he wuz outer sight, Brer Rabbit, he jump up, he did, en run roun' thoo de Woods en git befo Brer Fox agin.

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**Who acts:** Fox, wuz outer sight, en · **What happens:** sight, jump up, do, run · **To what, where:** roun

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, wuz outer sight, 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:pg2306:18:20
# text = Dreckly he wuz outer sight, Brer Rabbit, he jump up, he did, en run roun' thoo de Woods en git befo Brer Fox agin.
1	Dreckly	dreckly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
19	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	thoo	thoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	de	de	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	Woods	Woods	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	compound	_	_
24	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	befo	befo	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	agin	agin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sight** |  | Fox |  |  |  |  | dreckly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **jump up** | infinitive | wuz outer sight |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past | Fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **run** | present | en | roun and thoo |  |  |  | de Woods en git befo Fox agin | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme roun=Trajectory |

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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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