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title: "One day w'en Brer Rabbit wuz gwine lippity-clippitin' down de road,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "One day w'en Brer Rabbit wuz gwine lippity-clippitin' down de road, he meet up wid ole Brer Tarrypin, en atter dey pass de time er day wid wunner nudder, Brer Rabbit, he 'low dat he wuz much 'blije ter Brer Tarrypin fer de han' he tuck in de rumpus dat day down at Miss Meadows's." Who acts: wuz, wi
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 5

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"One day w'en Brer Rabbit wuz gwine lippity-clippitin' down de road, he meet up wid ole Brer Tarrypin, en atter dey pass de time er day wid wunner nudder, Brer Rabbit, he 'low dat he wuz much 'blije ter Brer Tarrypin fer de han' he tuck in de rumpus dat day down at Miss Meadows's."

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**Who acts:** wuz, wid ole Brer, Brer · **What happens:** meet up, pass, wuz, tuck · **To what, where:** atter dey, low dat

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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 (wuz, wid ole Brer, Brer), 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:pg2306:21:5
# text = "One day w'en Brer Rabbit wuz gwine lippity-clippitin' down de road, he meet up wid ole Brer Tarrypin, en atter dey pass de time er day wid wunner nudder, Brer Rabbit, he 'low dat he wuz much 'blije ter Brer Tarrypin fer de han' he tuck in de rumpus dat day down at Miss Meadows's."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	w'en	w'en	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	gwine	gwine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	lippity	lippity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	clippitin	clippitin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	de	de	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
23	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
28	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
29	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	30	compound	_	_
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	er	er	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
33	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	wunner	wunner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	nudder	nudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
38	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
41	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	parataxis	_	_
46	much	much	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	blije	blije	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	45	dep	_	_
49	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
50	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
51	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	flat	_	_
52	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
53	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	54	punct	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	tuck	tuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	conj	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
59	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
60	rumpus	rumpus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	_
61	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	compound	_	_
62	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	_
63	down	down	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
64	at	at	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	66	compound	_	_
66	Meadows	Meadows	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	's	's	PART	POS	_	66	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet up** *in a quote* | present | wuz |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pass** *in a quote* | present | wid ole Brer | atter dey |  |  | time |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wuz** *in a quote* | present | Brer | low dat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tuck** *in a quote* |  | Brer |  |  |  | day |  | 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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