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title: Den Brer Tarrypin 'low dat Brer Fox run mighty fas' dat day, but dat… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Brer Tarrypin 'low dat Brer Fox run mighty fas' dat day, but dat ef he'd er bin atter 'im stidder Brer Rabbit, he'd er kotch 'im. Who acts: low dat, dat. 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
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 8

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Den Brer Tarrypin 'low dat Brer Fox run mighty fas' dat day, but dat ef he'd er bin atter 'im stidder Brer Rabbit, he'd er kotch 'im.

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**Who acts:** low dat, dat · **What happens:** run, er · **To what, where:** mighty fas, im

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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 (low dat, dat), 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:pg2306:21:8
# text = Den Brer Tarrypin 'low dat Brer Fox run mighty fas' dat day, but dat ef he'd er bin atter 'im stidder Brer Rabbit, he'd er kotch 'im.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	fas	fa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
21	er	er	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	im	im	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	nsubj	_	_
26	stidder	stidd	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	conj	_	_
27	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	er	er	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
33	kotch	kotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	'	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | Den's low dat | mighty fas |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fa=Trajectory |
| 2 | **er** | would | dat | kotch's im |  |  |  |  | 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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