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title: W'en she got ter blazin' up good, Brer Rabbit, he tuck de fus turn. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: W'en she got ter blazin' up good, Brer Rabbit, he tuck de fus turn. Who acts: W'en, dey. 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 49

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W'en she got ter blazin' up good, Brer Rabbit, he tuck de fus turn.

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**Who acts:** W'en, dey · **What happens:** get, turn · **To what, where:** ter blazin

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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 (W'en, dey), 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:pg2306:20:49
# text = W'en she got ter blazin' up good, Brer Rabbit, he tuck de fus turn.
1	W'en	W'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ter	ter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	blazin	blazin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	up	up	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	tuck	tuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	flat:foreign	_	_
16	fus	fus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | W'en | ter blazin |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blazin=Stimulus |
| 2 | **turn** |  | dey |  |  |  |  |  | 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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