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title: "Dey wuk on twel bimeby de butter tas'e so good dat ole Brer Rabbit… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Dey wuk on twel bimeby de butter tas'e so good dat ole Brer Rabbit want some mo'. Who acts: ole Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 15

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"Dey wuk on twel bimeby de butter tas'e so good dat ole Brer Rabbit want some mo'.

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**Who acts:** ole Brer · **What happens:** want · **To what, where:** mo

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ole 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:pg2306:20:15
# text = "Dey wuk on twel bimeby de butter tas'e so good dat ole Brer Rabbit want some mo'.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Dey	Dey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	compound	_	_
8	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	tas'e	tas'e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	dat	dat	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** *in a quote* | present | ole Brer | some mo |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mo=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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