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title: Brer Wolf he up'n say he bleedzd ter bleeve Brer Rabbit got dem fish… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Wolf he up'n say he bleedzd ter bleeve Brer Rabbit got dem fishes. Who acts: Brer, Wolf up'n, bleeve. 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 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 37

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Brer Wolf he up'n say he bleedzd ter bleeve Brer Rabbit got dem fishes.

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**Who acts:** Brer, Wolf up'n, bleeve · **What happens:** up'n, say, bleedz, get · **To what, where:** dem fishes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Brer, Wolf up'n, bleeve), 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:pg2306:23:37
# text = Brer Wolf he up'n say he bleedzd ter bleeve Brer Rabbit got dem fishes.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	up'n	up'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	bleedzd	bleedz	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
8	ter	t	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
9	bleeve	bleeve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **up'n** |  | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Wolf up'n |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bleedz** | past | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | past | bleeve | dem fishes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus |

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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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