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title: "Brer Rabbit, he say 'yes,' en old Miss Tarrypin holler 'go' fum de… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Brer Rabbit, he say 'yes,' en old Miss Tarrypin holler 'go' fum de aidge er de woods. Who acts: Rabbit, en. 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 29

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"Brer Rabbit, he say 'yes,' en old Miss Tarrypin holler 'go' fum de aidge er de woods.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, en · **What happens:** say, wood · **To what, where:** Brer Rabbit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Rabbit, en), 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:pg2306:21:29
# text = "Brer Rabbit, he say 'yes,' en old Miss Tarrypin holler 'go' fum de aidge er de woods.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	go	go	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	fum	fum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	compound	_	_
21	aidge	aidge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
22	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	dep	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	flat:foreign	_	_
24	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Rabbit | Brer Rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic |
| 2 | **wood** *in a quote* |  | en |  |  |  |  |  | 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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