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title: "Den Brer Rabbit, he look sorter sollum, he did, en he up'n say, sez… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Den Brer Rabbit, he look sorter sollum, he did, en he up'n say, sezee. Who acts: den. 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 40

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"Den Brer Rabbit, he look sorter sollum, he did, en he up'n say, sezee.

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**Who acts:** den · **What happens:** look, do, say · **To what, where:** sorter sollum, en, sezee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (den), 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:pg2306:20:40
# text = "Den Brer Rabbit, he look sorter sollum, he did, en he up'n say, sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	sorter	sorter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sollum	sollum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	up'n	up'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | present | den | sorter sollum |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sollum=Attribute |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | past | den | en |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | den | sezee |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sezee=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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