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title: Right down dar in dat well Brer Rabbit keep his money hid, en ef 'ta… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Right down dar in dat well Brer Rabbit keep his money hid, en ef 'tain't dat den he done gone en 'skiver'd a gole-mine, en ef 'tain't dat, den I'm a gwineter see w'at's in dar,' sezee. Who acts: Brer Rabbit, money, Rabbit, I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Ha
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 20

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Right down dar in dat well Brer Rabbit keep his money hid, en ef 'tain't dat den he done gone en 'skiver'd a gole-mine, en ef 'tain't dat, den I'm a gwineter see w'at's in dar,' sezee.

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**Who acts:** Brer Rabbit, money, Rabbit, I · **What happens:** keep, hide, not be, go, skiver, gwineter · **To what, where:** money, well, dat, gole mine · **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 (Brer Rabbit, money, Rabbit, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2306:857`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:19:20
# text = Right down dar in dat well Brer Rabbit keep his money hid, en ef 'tain't dat den he done gone en 'skiver'd a gole-mine, en ef 'tain't dat, den I'm a gwineter see w'at's in dar,' sezee.
1	Right	right	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	dar	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	dat	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	hid	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	xcomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
14	en	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
15	ef	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
17	tai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	dat	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	advcl	_	_
20	den	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	done	do	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	aux	_	_
23	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
24	en	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
26	skiver	skiver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
27	'd	'd	X	GW	_	26	goeswith	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	gole	gole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	_
31	mine	mine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
33	en	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
34	ef	if	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
36	tai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	dat	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	advcl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
40	den	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	44	advmod	_	_
41	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
42	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	a	a	X	FW	_	44	dep	_	_
44	gwineter	gwineter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
45	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
46	w'at	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	49	nsubj	_	_
47	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	dar	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	45	ccomp	_	_
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
52	sezee	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | Brer Rabbit | Rabbit's money |  | that well; there |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | participle | Rabbit's money *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Rabbit *not said here* | dat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | participle · do-support | Rabbit |  |  |  | then |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **skiver** | participle | Rabbit *not said here* | a gole mine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I *not said here* | dat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **gwineter** | present · progressive | I |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **see** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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