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title: "Co'se, honey, hit mout er bin ole Brer Wolf, er hit mout er bin er… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Co'se, honey, hit mout er bin ole Brer Wolf, er hit mout er bin er n'er Brer Wolf; it mout er bin 'fo' he got kotch up wid, er it mout er bin atterwards. Who acts: Co'se, bin, Remus. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, w
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 28

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"Co'se, honey, hit mout er bin ole Brer Wolf, er hit mout er bin er n'er Brer Wolf; it mout er bin 'fo' he got kotch up wid, er it mout er bin atterwards.

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**Who acts:** Co'se, bin, Remus · **What happens:** hit, mout, get, kotch up, bin · **To what, where:** mout, wid

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Co'se, bin, Remus), 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:pg2306:23:28
# text = "Co'se, honey, hit mout er bin ole Brer Wolf, er hit mout er bin er n'er Brer Wolf; it mout er bin 'fo' he got kotch up wid, er it mout er bin atterwards.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Co'se	Co'se	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	mout	mout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	er	er	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	ole	ole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	er	er	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
16	mout	mout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	er	er	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
20	n'er	n'er	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	mout	mout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
26	er	er	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	32	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
33	kotch	kotch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	er	er	INTJ	UH	_	41	discourse	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	mout	mout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
40	er	er	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
42	atterwards	atterwards	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** *in a quote* | infinitive | Co'se and honey | mout |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mout=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **hit** *in a quote* | past | Co'se and honey *not said here* | mout |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent mout=Patient bin=Result |
| 3 | **mout** *in a quote* |  | bin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** *in a quote* | past | Remus |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **kotch up** *in a quote* | infinitive | Remus *not said here* | wid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **bin** *in a quote* |  | bin |  |  |  |  | atterwards *property* | 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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