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title: "Brer Rabbit, he lit out, he did, en come ter nex' pos', en dar wuz… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Brer Rabbit, he lit out, he did, en come ter nex' pos', en dar wuz de Tarrypin. Who acts: Brer Rabbit, Rabbit, en, nex pos. 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
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 40

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"Brer Rabbit, he lit out, he did, en come ter nex' pos', en dar wuz de Tarrypin.

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**Who acts:** Brer Rabbit, Rabbit, en, nex pos · **What happens:** light out, do, come, 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: who acts (Brer Rabbit, Rabbit, en, nex pos), 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:pg2306:21:40
# text = "Brer Rabbit, he lit out, he did, en come ter nex' pos', en dar wuz de Tarrypin.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lit	light	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	ter	ter	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	pos	pos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	',	',	PART	POS	_	17	dep	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
22	de	de	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light out** *in a quote* | past | Brer Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present | en |  |  |  |  | ter *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wuz** *in a quote* |  | nex pos |  |  |  |  | de Tarrypin | 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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