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title: "BRER RABBIT en Brer Fox wuz like some chilluns w'at I knows un," sa… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "BRER RABBIT en Brer Fox wuz like some chilluns w'at I knows un," said Uncle Remus, regarding the little boy, who had come to hear another story, with an affectation of great solemnity. " Who acts: Uncle Remus, little boy. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harri
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 1

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"BRER RABBIT en Brer Fox wuz like some chilluns w'at I knows un," said Uncle Remus, regarding the little boy, who had come to hear another story, with an affectation of great solemnity. "

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**Who acts:** Uncle Remus, little boy · **What happens:** know, say, regard, come, hear · **To what, where:** un, story · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle Remus, little boy), 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:pg2306:19:1
# text = "BRER RABBIT en Brer Fox wuz like some chilluns w'at I knows un," said Uncle Remus, regarding the little boy, who had come to hear another story, with an affectation of great solemnity. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	BRER	BRER	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	RABBIT	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	chilluns	chillun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
18	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	regarding	regard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
31	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	affectation	affectation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	solemnity	solemnity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** *in a quote* | present | Uncle Remus *= remus* | un |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer un=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Uncle Remus |  |  |  |  | regard the little boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **regard** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | past · perfect | the little boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hear** | to-infinitive | the little boy *not said here* | another story |  |  |  | with a affectation of great solemnity | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |

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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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