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title: Dey lump de vittles up in one pile, en de butter w'at Brer Fox brung… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dey lump de vittles up in one pile, en de butter w'at Brer Fox brung, dey goes en puts in de spring-'ouse fer ter keep cool, en den dey went ter wuk, en 'twan't long 'fo' Brer Rabbit's stummuck 'gun ter sorter growl en pester 'im. Who acts: lump de, dey, en, spring. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His S
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 4

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Dey lump de vittles up in one pile, en de butter w'at Brer Fox brung, dey goes en puts in de spring-'ouse fer ter keep cool, en den dey went ter wuk, en 'twan't long 'fo' Brer Rabbit's stummuck 'gun ter sorter growl en pester 'im.

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**Who acts:** lump de, dey, en, spring, de ouse fer ter, en den dey · **What happens:** vittle up, go, put in, ter, keep, growl · **To what, where:** one pile, wuk, en

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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 (lump de, dey, en, spring), 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:pg2306:20:4
# text = Dey lump de vittles up in one pile, en de butter w'at Brer Fox brung, dey goes en puts in de spring-'ouse fer ter keep cool, en den dey went ter wuk, en 'twan't long 'fo' Brer Rabbit's stummuck 'gun ter sorter growl en pester 'im.
1	Dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	lump	lump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	vittles	vittle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	compound	_	_
12	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
15	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	brung	brung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
24	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	ouse	ouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	parataxis	_	_
31	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	en	en	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
37	ter	t	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	38	advmod	_	_
38	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
41	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	twa	twa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
44	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	advmod	_	_
45	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	51	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	51	punct	_	_
48	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	's	's	PART	POS	_	49	case	_	_
51	stummuck	stummuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	_
52	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
54	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
56	growl	growl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	parataxis	_	_
57	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	_
58	pester	pester	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nmod:poss	_	_
59	'	's	PART	POS	_	58	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vittle up** | present | lump de |  |  | one pile and en and de butter w'at |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | present | dey |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **put in** | present | en |  |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ter** |  | spring |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **keep** | infinitive | de ouse fer ter |  |  |  |  | cool *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **go** | past | en den dey | wuk and en and twa |  |  |  | long *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **growl** | present | gun ter sorter | en and pester's im |  |  |  | for Brer Rabbit's stummuck | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Topic |

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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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