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title: "'You run en hide, Brer Wolf,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'en I'll stay… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'You run en hide, Brer Wolf,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'en I'll stay yer en take keer er de cow twel you gits back,' sezee. Who acts: You, en, er. 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 pragm
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 43

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"'You run en hide, Brer Wolf,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'en I'll stay yer en take keer er de cow twel you gits back,' sezee.

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**Who acts:** You, en, er · **What happens:** run, say, stay, take, twel · **To what, where:** en hide, Brer, en, keer · **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 (You, en, er), 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:pg2306:23:43
# text = "'You run en hide, Brer Wolf,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'en I'll stay yer en take keer er de cow twel you gits back,' sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
12	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
23	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
26	keer	keer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	30	nsubj	_	_
28	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	flat:foreign	_	_
29	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	parataxis	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	gits	git	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod:unmarked	_	_
33	back	back	ADV	RB	_	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
36	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** *in a quote* | present | You | en hide |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hide=Trajectory |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present |  | Brer |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic |
| 3 | **stay** *in a quote* | future | en | yer's en |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme en=Location |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | en *not said here* | keer |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent keer=Theme |
| 5 | **twel** *in a quote* |  | er |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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