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title: Brer Rabbit he train hisse'f eve'y day, en he skip over de groun' de… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Rabbit he train hisse'f eve'y day, en he skip over de groun' des ez gayly ez a June cricket. Who acts: ter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 19

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Brer Rabbit he train hisse'f eve'y day, en he skip over de groun' des ez gayly ez a June cricket.

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**Who acts:** ter · **What happens:** train, skip · **To what, where:** Brer Rabbit, de groun

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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: who acts (ter), 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:pg2306:21:19
# text = Brer Rabbit he train hisse'f eve'y day, en he skip over de groun' des ez gayly ez a June cricket.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	train	train	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	hisse'f	hisse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	eve'y	eve'y	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	skip	skip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	compound	_	_
14	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	des	des	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	nsubj	_	_
17	ez	ez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	gayly	gayly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
19	ez	ez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	dep	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	cricket	cricket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **train** | present | ter | Brer Rabbit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **skip** | present | ter |  |  | de groun |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over groun=Trajectory |

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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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