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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 15

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De race wuz a five-mile heat, en de groun' wuz medjud off, en at de een' er eve'y mile a pos' wuz stuck up.

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**What happens:** stick up · **To what, where:** mile wuz

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2306:21:15
# text = De race wuz a five-mile heat, en de groun' wuz medjud off, en at de een' er eve'y mile a pos' wuz stuck up.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	conj	_	_
12	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
14	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	medjud	medjud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	compound	_	_
21	een	een	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	er	er	X	FW	_	25	compound	_	_
24	eve'y	eve'y	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	pos	pos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
30	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stick up** | participle |  | a pos's mile wuz *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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