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title: Dreckly he feel de bucket hit de water, en dar she sot, but Brer Rab… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dreckly he feel de bucket hit de water, en dar she sot, but Brer Rabbit he keep mighty still, kaze he dunner w'at minnit gwineter be de nex'. Who acts: Rabbit, de bucket, Brer Rabbit, minnit gwineter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 11

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Dreckly he feel de bucket hit de water, en dar she sot, but Brer Rabbit he keep mighty still, kaze he dunner w'at minnit gwineter be de nex'.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, de bucket, Brer Rabbit, minnit gwineter · **What happens:** feel, hit, keep, be · **To what, where:** de water, de nex

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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 (Rabbit, de bucket, Brer Rabbit, minnit gwineter), 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:pg2306:19:11
# text = Dreckly he feel de bucket hit de water, en dar she sot, but Brer Rabbit he keep mighty still, kaze he dunner w'at minnit gwineter be de nex'.
1	Dreckly	dreckly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	compound	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	compound	_	_
13	sot	sot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	parataxis	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	dunner	dun	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	conj	_	_
26	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	minnit	minnit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
30	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	compound	_	_
31	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | infinitive | Rabbit |  |  |  |  | dreckly *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **hit** | past | de bucket | de water and en dar and she sot |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive | Brer Rabbit |  |  |  | still | mighty *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | infinitive | minnit gwineter | de nex |  |  |  |  | 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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