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title: Dar wuz de fishes, en dar wuz Brer Rabbit, en w'en dat de case w'at… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dar wuz de fishes, en dar wuz Brer Rabbit, en w'en dat de case w'at you speck a sorter innerpen'ent man like Brer Rabbit gwine do? Who acts: you, wuz de fishes. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, with its dependency tree
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 33

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Dar wuz de fishes, en dar wuz Brer Rabbit, en w'en dat de case w'at you speck a sorter innerpen'ent man like Brer Rabbit gwine do?

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**Who acts:** you, wuz de fishes · **What happens:** speck, do · **To what, where:** sorter

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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 (you, wuz de fishes), 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:pg2306:23:33
# text = Dar wuz de fishes, en dar wuz Brer Rabbit, en w'en dat de case w'at you speck a sorter innerpen'ent man like Brer Rabbit gwine do?
1	Dar	Dar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
10	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
16	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	speck	speck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	innerpen'ent	innerpen'ent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speck** | present | you | a sorter and innerpen'ent man like Rabbit gwine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | infinitive | wuz de fishes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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