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title: All dis time Brer Rabbit mighty nigh skeer'd outen his skin, en he f… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: All dis time Brer Rabbit mighty nigh skeer'd outen his skin, en he fear'd fer ter move kaze de bucket might keel over en spill him out in de water. Who acts: Rabbit mighty skeer, crope, fer ter, de bucket. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Old Mr. R
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 23

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All dis time Brer Rabbit mighty nigh skeer'd outen his skin, en he fear'd fer ter move kaze de bucket might keel over en spill him out in de water.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit mighty skeer, crope, fer ter, de bucket · **What happens:** outen, fear, move, keel, spill out · **To what, where:** skin, kaze, crope, en

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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 mighty skeer, crope, fer ter, de bucket), 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:pg2306:19:23
# text = All dis time Brer Rabbit mighty nigh skeer'd outen his skin, en he fear'd fer ter move kaze de bucket might keel over en spill him out in de water.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	skeer	skeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	outen	outen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	compound	_	_
23	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	keel	keel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
28	spill	spill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **outen** | would | Rabbit mighty skeer | crope's skin |  |  | time | en and fear *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fear** |  | crope |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **move** | would | fer ter | kaze |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent kaze=Theme |
| 4 | **keel** | might | de bucket |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **spill out** | present | de bucket *not said here* | crope |  | en |  | in de water | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |

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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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