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title: De las' drap er dat butter done gone!' — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De las' drap er dat butter done gone!' Who acts: las, dat butter. 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 37

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De las' drap er dat butter done gone!'

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**Who acts:** las, dat butter · **What happens:** drap, do, go

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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 (las, dat butter), 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:pg2306:20:37
# text = De las' drap er dat butter done gone!'
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	nmod	_	_
2	las	la	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	drap	drap	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
6	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
9	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drap** | infinitive | las  De |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | participle | dat butter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | participle | dat butter |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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