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title: Brer Rabbit say he could er kotch 'im hisse'f but he didn't keer 'bo… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Rabbit say he could er kotch 'im hisse'f but he didn't keer 'bout leavin' de ladies. Who acts: Brer. 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 9

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Brer Rabbit say he could er kotch 'im hisse'f but he didn't keer 'bout leavin' de ladies.

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**Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** say, er, not keer · **To what, where:** kotch im hisse'f · **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 (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:pg2306:21:9
# text = Brer Rabbit say he could er kotch 'im hisse'f but he didn't keer 'bout leavin' de ladies.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	er	er	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	kotch	kotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	im	im	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hisse'f	hisse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	keer	keer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	bout	bout	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	leavin	leavin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	nmod	_	_
21	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	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* | present | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **er** | could | Brer | kotch im hisse'f |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **keer** | past · do-support | Brer |  |  |  |  | bout leavin  ladies  de | 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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