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title: "Brer Rabbit talk so happy en talk so sweet dat Brer Fox he jump in… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Brer Rabbit talk so happy en talk so sweet dat Brer Fox he jump in de bucket, he did, en, ez he went down, co'se his weight pull Brer Rabbit up. Who acts: talk, Rabbit talk, Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisher
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 39

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"Brer Rabbit talk so happy en talk so sweet dat Brer Fox he jump in de bucket, he did, en, ez he went down, co'se his weight pull Brer Rabbit up.

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**Who acts:** talk, Rabbit talk, Brer · **What happens:** jump, go down, co'se, pull, rabbit up · **To what, where:** Brer Fox, de bucket, ez, weight

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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 (talk, Rabbit talk, Brer), 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:pg2306:19:39
# text = "Brer Rabbit talk so happy en talk so sweet dat Brer Fox he jump in de bucket, he did, en, ez he went down, co'se his weight pull Brer Rabbit up.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
11	dat	dat	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	jump	jump	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	ez	ez	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	down	down	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	co'se	co'se	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
34	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	Rabbit	rabbit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** *in a quote* | present | talk | Brer Fox *not said here* |  | de bucket |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fox=Theme in bucket=Trajectory |
| 2 | **go down** *in a quote* | past | talk | ez *not said here* |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient ez=Extent |
| 3 | **co'se** *in a quote* | past · do-support | Rabbit talk  happy en talk | talk's weight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pull** *in a quote* | infinitive | Rabbit talk  happy en talk *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **rabbit up** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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