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title: "W'en ole Brer Wolf got dar, w'ich he come er scootin', dar wuz Brer… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "W'en ole Brer Wolf got dar, w'ich he come er scootin', dar wuz Brer Rabbit hol'in' on ter de cow-tail, fer ter keep it fum gwine in de groun'. Who acts: W'en ole, ole, tail. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, with its d
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 51

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"W'en ole Brer Wolf got dar, w'ich he come er scootin', dar wuz Brer Rabbit hol'in' on ter de cow-tail, fer ter keep it fum gwine in de groun'.

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**Who acts:** W'en ole, ole, tail · **What happens:** get, come, keep, fum · **To what, where:** dar, wuz Rabbit hol'in, tail, de cow tail, gwine, de groun

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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 (W'en ole, ole, tail), 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:pg2306:23:51
# text = "W'en ole Brer Wolf got dar, w'ich he come er scootin', dar wuz Brer Rabbit hol'in' on ter de cow-tail, fer ter keep it fum gwine in de groun'.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	W'en	W'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ole	ole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	w'ich	w'ich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
12	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
13	scootin	scootin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	',	',	PART	POS	_	13	dep	_	_
15	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
17	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	hol'in	hol'in	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	fum	fum	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | past | W'en ole | dar and w'ich |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dar=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | ole | wuz Rabbit hol'in |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | ole *not said here* | tail |  | de cow tail and fer ter |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fum** *in a quote* | infinitive | tail *not said here* | gwine |  | de groun |  |  | 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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