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title: Fus' news you know, w'ile dey wuz all wukkin' long, Brer Rabbit rais… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Fus' news you know, w'ile dey wuz all wukkin' long, Brer Rabbit raise his head quick en fling his years forerd en holler out: Who acts: you, news, quick en, years. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, with its depende
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 7

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Fus' news you know, w'ile dey wuz all wukkin' long, Brer Rabbit raise his head quick en fling his years forerd en holler out:

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**Who acts:** you, news, quick en, years · **What happens:** know, raise, fl, forer out · **To what, where:** news, head, en holler

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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 (you, news, quick en, years), 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:pg2306:20:7
# text = Fus' news you know, w'ile dey wuz all wukkin' long, Brer Rabbit raise his head quick en fling his years forerd en holler out:
1	Fus	Fus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	w'ile	w'ile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	wukkin	wukkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
17	raise	raise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	fling	fl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	forerd	forer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
26	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | you | Fus's news and w'ile dey wuz and Brer Rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus |
| 2 | **raise** | present | Fus's news and w'ile dey wuz and Brer Rabbit | wukkin's head |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent head=Theme en=Destination |
| 3 | **fl** | gerund | quick en *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **forer out** | past | wukkin's years | en holler |  |  |  |  | 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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