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title: Brer Rabbit en Brer Fox dey is bofe 'gree, dey did, en dey whirl in… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Rabbit en Brer Fox dey is bofe 'gree, dey did, en dey whirl in en b'il' de breshheap, en dey b'il' her high en dey b'il' her wide, en den dey totch her off. Who acts: dey bofe. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 48

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Brer Rabbit en Brer Fox dey is bofe 'gree, dey did, en dey whirl in en b'il' de breshheap, en dey b'il' her high en dey b'il' her wide, en den dey totch her off.

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**Who acts:** dey bofe · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** dey bofe, dey whirl

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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 (dey bofe), 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:pg2306:20:48
# text = Brer Rabbit en Brer Fox dey is bofe 'gree, dey did, en dey whirl in en b'il' de breshheap, en dey b'il' her high en dey b'il' her wide, en den dey totch her off.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
5	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	bofe	bofe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	gree	gree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	whirl	whirl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	b'il	b'il	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	compound	_	_
23	breshheap	breshheap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	b'il	b'il	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
30	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	b'il	b'il	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
36	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
38	en	en	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
39	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	totch	totch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
42	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	off	off	ADP	RP	_	41	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | dey bofe and gree and dey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past | dey bofe and gree and dey | dey whirl in en b'il and de breshheap |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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