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title: Den Brer Rabbit, he went'n mounted a stump fer ter see ef he could y… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Brer Rabbit, he went'n mounted a stump fer ter see ef he could year Brer Fox comin'. Who acts: Fox, Den went'n. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 8

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Den Brer Rabbit, he went'n mounted a stump fer ter see ef he could year Brer Fox comin'.

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**Who acts:** Fox, Den went'n · **What happens:** went'n, mount, see, comin · **To what, where:** fer ter, ef

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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, Den went'n), 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:pg2306:18:8
# text = Den Brer Rabbit, he went'n mounted a stump fer ter see ef he could year Brer Fox comin'.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went'n	went'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	stump	stump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
13	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
16	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	comin	comin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **went'n** |  | Fox |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mount** | past | Den went'n | a fer ter |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ter=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | Den went'n *not said here* | ef |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ef=Stimulus |
| 4 | **comin** | could | Fox |  |  |  |  |  | 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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