--- title: "Brer Wolf, he sot down en scratch his head, he did, en study en stu… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "Brer Wolf, he sot down en scratch his head, he did, en study en study, en den hit sorter rush inter his mine dat Brer Rabbit bin 'long dar, en den Brer Wolf, he put out fer Brer Rabbit house, en w'en he git dar he hail 'im. Who acts: Brer, en den, Brer Wolf, study en study. A sentence of «Uncle Rem --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/35/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/) / 35 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 35 "Brer Wolf, he sot down en scratch his head, he did, en study en study, en den hit sorter rush inter his mine dat Brer Rabbit bin 'long dar, en den Brer Wolf, he put out fer Brer Rabbit house, en w'en he git dar he hail 'im. **Who acts:** Brer, en den, Brer Wolf, study en study, w'en · **What happens:** sot, scratch, do, hit, rush, dat · **To what, where:** head, sorter, inter, Brer Rabbit bin, fer Rabbit house 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 (Brer, en den, Brer Wolf, study en study), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:23:35 # text = "Brer Wolf, he sot down en scratch his head, he did, en study en study, en den hit sorter rush inter his mine dat Brer Rabbit bin 'long dar, en den Brer Wolf, he put out fer Brer Rabbit house, en w'en he git dar he hail 'im. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 Wolf Wolf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 sot sot NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 7 down down ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 scratch scratch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 study study NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 study study NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 24 sorter sorter NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 rush rush VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 inter inter NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 28 mine my PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 dat dat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 31 Rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 39 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 appos _ _ 40 Wolf Wolf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 44 out out ADP RP _ 43 compound:prt _ _ 45 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 46 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 50 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 51 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nsubj _ _ 52 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 53 git git NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 compound _ _ 54 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ _ 55 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 56 hail hail NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 appos _ _ 57 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 58 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 58 im im NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sot** *in a quote* | | Brer | | | | | down en | tree rules | | 2 | **scratch** *in a quote* | present | Brer | Brer's head | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 3 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Brer | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hit** *in a quote* | past | en den | sorter | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **rush** *in a quote* | infinitive | en den *not said here* | inter | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **dat** *in a quote* | past | Brer Wolf *= wolf* | Brer Rabbit bin | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **put out** *in a quote* | past | Brer | fer Rabbit house | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent house=Goal | | 8 | **dar** *in a quote* | | study en study | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **hail** *in a quote* | | w'en | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/36/) - ↑ back to [XX. 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