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title: Atter w'ile de roof sorter 'gun ter leak, en one day Brer Rabbit, en… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Atter w'ile de roof sorter 'gun ter leak, en one day Brer Rabbit, en Brer Fox, en Brer Possum, 'semble fer ter see ef dey can't kinder patch her up. Who acts: Brer, ef dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, with it
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 2

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Atter w'ile de roof sorter 'gun ter leak, en one day Brer Rabbit, en Brer Fox, en Brer Possum, 'semble fer ter see ef dey can't kinder patch her up.

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**Who acts:** Brer, ef dey · **What happens:** see up, patch · **To what, where:** Brer

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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 (Brer, ef dey), 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:pg2306:20:2
# text = Atter w'ile de roof sorter 'gun ter leak, en one day Brer Rabbit, en Brer Fox, en Brer Possum, 'semble fer ter see ef dey can't kinder patch her up.
1	Atter	Atter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	w'ile	w'ile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	leak	leak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
15	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
18	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
22	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
23	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	semble	semble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
30	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
32	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	kinder	kind	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	amod	_	_
35	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:unmarked	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **see up** | infinitive | Brer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **patch** | can | ef dey | Brer |  |  |  |  | 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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