--- title: "Den ole Brer Rabbit, he laff, he did, en up en 'spon', sezee: 'Ef I… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "Den ole Brer Rabbit, he laff, he did, en up en 'spon', sezee: 'Ef I'd a know'd you wuz atter dat, Brer Fox, I'd a loant you some er mine,' sezee." Who acts: ole, Den ole, you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/18/31/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Ra…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/18/) / 31 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 31 "Den ole Brer Rabbit, he laff, he did, en up en 'spon', sezee: 'Ef I'd a know'd you wuz atter dat, Brer Fox, I'd a loant you some er mine,' sezee." **Who acts:** ole, Den ole, you · **What happens:** laff, do, en up, wuz, er · **To what, where:** en, atter dat, Hunter 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 (ole, Den ole, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:18:31 # text = "Den ole Brer Rabbit, he laff, he did, en up en 'spon', sezee: 'Ef I'd a know'd you wuz atter dat, Brer Fox, I'd a loant you some er mine,' sezee." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Den Den PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 ole ole NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 4 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 5 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 laff laff NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 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 , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 en en VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 spon spon NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ', ', PART POS _ 17 dep _ _ 19 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Ef Ef PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 'd have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 know know NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 'd 'd SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 wuz wuz VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 30 atter atter NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 'd have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 loant loant NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 42 nsubj _ _ 42 er er VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 43 mine my PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ _ 46 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laff** *in a quote* | | ole | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Den ole | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **en up** *in a quote* | infinitive | Den ole *not said here* | en and spon sezee | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **wuz** *in a quote* | present | you | atter dat | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **er** *in a quote* | present | you | Hunter | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/18/30/) - next →: [XVI. 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