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title: "One day, w'en Brer Rabbit, en Brer Fox, en Brer Coon, en Brer B'ar,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "One day, w'en Brer Rabbit, en Brer Fox, en Brer Coon, en Brer B'ar, en a whole lot un um wuz clearin' up a new groun' fer ter plant a roas'n'-year patch, de sun gun ter git sorter hot, en Brer Rabbit he got tired; but he didn't let on, kaze he fear'd de balance un um'd call 'im lazy, en he keep on 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 3

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"One day, w'en Brer Rabbit, en Brer Fox, en Brer Coon, en Brer B'ar, en a whole lot un um wuz clearin' up a new groun' fer ter plant a roas'n'-year patch, de sun gun ter git sorter hot, en Brer Rabbit he got tired; but he didn't let on, kaze he fear'd de balance un um'd call 'im lazy, en he keep on totin' off trash en pilin' up bresh, twel bimeby he holler out dat he gotter brier in his han', en den he take'n slip off, en hunt fer cool place fer ter res'.

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**Who acts:** whole lot, roas'n, de, kaze, fear, han · **What happens:** plant, patch, sorter, get, not let on, call · **To what, where:** day w'en, en Brer Rabbit, en, totin, dat, gotter brier · **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 (whole lot, roas'n, de, kaze), 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:pg2306:19:3
# text = "One day, w'en Brer Rabbit, en Brer Fox, en Brer Coon, en Brer B'ar, en a whole lot un um wuz clearin' up a new groun' fer ter plant a roas'n'-year patch, de sun gun ter git sorter hot, en Brer Rabbit he got tired; but he didn't let on, kaze he fear'd de balance un um'd call 'im lazy, en he keep on totin' off trash en pilin' up bresh, twel bimeby he holler out dat he gotter brier in his han', en den he take'n slip off, en hunt fer cool place fer ter res'.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
15	Coon	Coon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
18	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
19	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
25	un	un	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	28	compound	_	_
26	um	um	X	FW	_	28	compound	_	_
27	wuz	wuz	X	FW	_	28	compound	_	_
28	clearin	clearin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
35	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
37	plant	plant	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	roas'n	roas'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
45	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	50	nsubj	_	_
46	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
48	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	appos	_	_
51	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
54	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	acl:relcl	_	_
58	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
60	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
61	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
62	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	64	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	64	advmod	_	_
64	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	parataxis	_	_
65	on	on	ADP	RP	_	64	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
67	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	76	nsubj	_	_
68	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	70	nsubj	_	_
69	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	67	acl:relcl	_	_
71	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	74	amod	_	_
72	balance	balance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	74	compound	_	_
73	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	74	compound	_	_
74	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	76	aux	_	_
76	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	64	xcomp	_	_
77	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	79	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
78	im	im	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	79	amod	_	_
79	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	76	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
80	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	81	punct	_	_
81	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	79	conj	_	_
82	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	83	nsubj	_	_
83	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	81	acl:relcl	_	_
84	on	on	ADP	IN	_	85	case	_	_
85	totin	totin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	83	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
86	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	85	punct	_	_
87	off	off	ADP	IN	_	90	case	_	_
88	trash	trash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	89	compound	_	_
89	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	90	compound	_	_
90	pilin	pilin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	98	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
91	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	90	punct	_	_
92	up	up	ADP	IN	_	93	case	_	_
93	bresh	bresh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	90	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
94	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	96	punct	_	_
95	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	96	compound	_	_
96	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	98	compound	_	_
97	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	98	nsubj	_	_
98	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	85	conj	_	_
99	out	out	ADP	RP	_	100	case	_	_
100	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	103	obl	_	_
101	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	103	nsubj	_	_
102	gotter	gotter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	103	compound	_	_
103	brier	brier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	98	nmod	_	_
104	in	in	ADP	IN	_	109	case	_	_
105	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	106	nmod:poss	_	_
106	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	109	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
107	',	',	PART	POS	_	106	dep	_	_
108	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	109	compound	_	_
109	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	112	obl	_	_
110	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	112	nsubj	_	_
111	take'n	take'n	CCONJ	CC	_	112	cc	_	_
112	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	103	acl:relcl	_	_
113	off	off	ADP	RP	_	112	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
114	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	115	punct	_	_
115	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	116	nsubj	_	_
116	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	112	parataxis	_	_
117	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	116	obj	_	_
118	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	120	amod	_	_
119	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	120	compound	_	_
120	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	117	conj	_	_
121	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	122	case	_	_
122	res	re	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	120	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
123	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	122	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
124	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plant** *in a quote* | present | a whole lot | day w'en and en and Brer Fox and en and en |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **patch** *in a quote* |  | a roas'n |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sorter** *in a quote* |  | de |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** *in a quote* | past | roas'n | en Brer Rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rabbit=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **let on** *in a quote* | past · do-support | roas'n |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **call** *in a quote* | would | kaze |  |  |  |  | lazy *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | fear | en *not said here* |  | totin and bimeby holler |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent en=Theme on totin=Location |
| 8 | **holler** *speech: other* *in a quote* |  | fear |  |  |  |  | off en pilin up bresh | tree rules |
| 9 | **brier** *in a quote* |  | fear |  |  | dat |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **slip off** *in a quote* | infinitive | han | gotter brier *not said here* |  | en den |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent brier=Patient |
| 11 | **hunt** *in a quote* | present | en | fer and cool place fer ter res |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fer=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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