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title: "W'en Brer Rabbit got out, he gallop off en tole de fokes w'at de we… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "W'en Brer Rabbit got out, he gallop off en tole de fokes w'at de well blong ter dat Brer Fox wuz down in dar muddyin' up de drinkin' water, en den he gallop back ter de well, en holler down ter Brer Fox: Who acts: W'en, Fox. 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 43

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"W'en Brer Rabbit got out, he gallop off en tole de fokes w'at de well blong ter dat Brer Fox wuz down in dar muddyin' up de drinkin' water, en den he gallop back ter de well, en holler down ter Brer Fox:

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**Who acts:** W'en, Fox · **What happens:** get out, gallop off, gallop back · **To what, where:** tole fokes w'at, blong, dar muddyin

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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 (W'en, Fox), 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:pg2306:19:43
# text = "W'en Brer Rabbit got out, he gallop off en tole de fokes w'at de well blong ter dat Brer Fox wuz down in dar muddyin' up de drinkin' water, en den he gallop back ter de well, en holler down ter Brer Fox:
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	W'en	W'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gallop	gallop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	tole	tole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat:foreign	_	_
14	fokes	foke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	compound	_	_
15	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
16	de	de	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	blong	blong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	obl	_	_
19	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
24	down	down	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	dar	dar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	muddyin	muddyin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	case	_	_
30	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	compound	_	_
31	drinkin	drinkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	gallop	gallop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
39	back	back	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
41	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	40	conj	_	_
42	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
46	down	down	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
47	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
48	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get out** *in a quote* | past | W'en |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **gallop off** *in a quote* | present | Fox | tole fokes w'at |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent w'at=Agent |
| 3 | **gallop back** *in a quote* | present | Fox | blong and Brer Fox wuz |  | dar muddyin up de drinkin and water and en den |  |  | 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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