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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 36

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"Brer Rabbit so glad he's ahead dat he put out harder dan ever, en de Tarrypin, he make fer home.

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**Who acts:** Brer Rabbit, Rabbit · **What happens:** be, put out, make · **To what, where:** glad dat, harder dan, fer home

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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 (Brer Rabbit, Rabbit), 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:pg2306:21:36
# text = "Brer Rabbit so glad he's ahead dat he put out harder dan ever, en de Tarrypin, he make fer home.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	dan	dan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
18	de	de	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
23	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Brer Rabbit | glad dat and en de Tarrypin |  |  |  | ahead *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **put out** *in a quote* | past | Rabbit | harder dan |  |  | ever |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent dan=Goal |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | present | Rabbit | fer home |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Product |

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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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