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title: Brer Rabbit 'ny it up en down, but Brer Wolf stan' to it dat Brer Ra… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Rabbit 'ny it up en down, but Brer Wolf stan' to it dat Brer Rabbit got dem fishes. Who acts: ny it en. 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 38

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Brer Rabbit 'ny it up en down, but Brer Wolf stan' to it dat Brer Rabbit got dem fishes.

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**Who acts:** ny it en · **What happens:** get · **To what, where:** dem fishes

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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 (ny it en), 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:pg2306:23:38
# text = Brer Rabbit 'ny it up en down, but Brer Wolf stan' to it dat Brer Rabbit got dem fishes.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	ny	NY	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	compound	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
11	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
17	dat	dat	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** |  | ny it en | 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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