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title: "Brer Possum, he lope off atter de butter, en dreckly here he come l… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Brer Possum, he lope off atter de butter, en dreckly here he come lopin' back wid his years a trimblin' en his tongue a hangin' out. Who acts: Brer Possum, Possum, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, with its de
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 33

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"Brer Possum, he lope off atter de butter, en dreckly here he come lopin' back wid his years a trimblin' en his tongue a hangin' out.

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**Who acts:** Brer Possum, Possum, en · **What happens:** lope off, come, wi out, hangin · **To what, where:** atter, lopin

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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 Possum, Possum, en), 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:pg2306:20:33
# text = "Brer Possum, he lope off atter de butter, en dreckly here he come lopin' back wid his years a trimblin' en his tongue a hangin' out.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lope	lope	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat:foreign	_	_
10	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	dreckly	dreckly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	lopin	lopin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	trimblin	trimblin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	hangin	hangin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **lope off** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brer Possum | atter and butter and en |  | here |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent atter=Agent |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | present | Possum | lopin |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lopin=Theme |
| 3 | **wi out** *in a quote* | past | Possum *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hangin** *in a quote* |  | a trimblin's en |  |  |  |  |  | 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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