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title: Dat butter er Brer Fox sot heavy on his mine, en his mouf water eve'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dat butter er Brer Fox sot heavy on his mine, en his mouf water eve'y time he 'member 'bout it. Who acts: eve'y time. 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 5

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Dat butter er Brer Fox sot heavy on his mine, en his mouf water eve'y time he 'member 'bout it.

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**Who acts:** eve'y time · **What happens:** member

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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 (eve'y time), 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:pg2306:20:5
# text = Dat butter er Brer Fox sot heavy on his mine, en his mouf water eve'y time he 'member 'bout it.
1	Dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	er	er	PROPN	GW	Typo=Yes	0	root	_	_
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	sot	sot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	mine	mine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
14	mouf	mouf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	eve'y	eve'y	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	bout	bout	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **member** |  | dey's eve'y time |  |  |  |  |  | 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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