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title: Brer Wolf, he tuck Brer Rabbit at his word, en go off ter de pastur'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Wolf, he tuck Brer Rabbit at his word, en go off ter de pastur' en drive up de cattle en kill Brer Rabbit bes' cow. Who acts: Brer. 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 e
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 40

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Brer Wolf, he tuck Brer Rabbit at his word, en go off ter de pastur' en drive up de cattle en kill Brer Rabbit bes' cow.

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**Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** tuck, go off, drive up, word · **To what, where:** Brer Rabbit, word, ter

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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), 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:pg2306:23:40
# text = Brer Wolf, he tuck Brer Rabbit at his word, en go off ter de pastur' en drive up de cattle en kill Brer Rabbit bes' cow.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tuck	tuck	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat:foreign	_	_
17	pastur	pastur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	flat:foreign	_	_
23	cattle	cattle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
26	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
27	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
28	bes	be	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tuck** | infinitive | Brer | Brer Rabbit |  | Brer's word and en |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme at word=Trajectory |
| 2 | **go off** | infinitive |  | ter and pastur and en |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **drive up** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **word** |  | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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