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title: But Brer Wolf he wern't de man fer ter give it up dat away, en he go… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: But Brer Wolf he wern't de man fer ter give it up dat away, en he got 'im a spade, en a pick-axe, en a shovel, en he dig en dig fer dat cow twel diggin' wuz pas' all endu'unce, en ole Brer Rabbit he sot up dar in his front po'ch en smoke his seegyar. Who acts: en, Wolf wer, wuz pas. A sentence of «U
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 55

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But Brer Wolf he wern't de man fer ter give it up dat away, en he got 'im a spade, en a pick-axe, en a shovel, en he dig en dig fer dat cow twel diggin' wuz pas' all endu'unce, en ole Brer Rabbit he sot up dar in his front po'ch en smoke his seegyar.

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**Who acts:** en, Wolf wer, wuz pas · **What happens:** wer, give up, get, dig, endu'unce, sot up · **To what, where:** de man, tail, spade, shovel

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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 (en, Wolf wer, wuz pas), 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:pg2306:23:55
# text = But Brer Wolf he wern't de man fer ter give it up dat away, en he got 'im a spade, en a pick-axe, en a shovel, en he dig en dig fer dat cow twel diggin' wuz pas' all endu'unce, en ole Brer Rabbit he sot up dar in his front po'ch en smoke his seegyar.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wer	wer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	compound	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
14	dat	dat	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	im	im	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	spade	spade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	pick	pick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	shovel	shovel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	dig	dig	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
38	en	en	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	xcomp	_	_
39	dig	dig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
44	diggin	diggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	50	punct	_	_
46	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	pas	pa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	'	's	PART	POS	_	47	case	_	_
49	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	50	det	_	_
50	endu'unce	endu'unce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	ole	ole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	_
54	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	sot	sot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	appos	_	_
58	up	up	ADP	RP	_	57	compound:prt	_	_
59	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	conj	_	_
60	in	in	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
61	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	65	nmod:poss	_	_
62	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	amod	_	_
63	po'ch	po'ch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	compound	_	_
64	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	compound	_	_
65	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nmod	_	_
66	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	67	nmod:poss	_	_
67	seegyar	seegyar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wer** |  | en | de man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give up** | present | Wolf wer | tail |  |  |  | en *obl*; away *property* | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source |
| 3 | **get** | past | en | a spade and en and a pick axe and en |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spade=Stimulus |
| 4 | **dig** | present | en | a shovel and en *not said here* |  |  |  | en *property* | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shovel=Theme |
| 5 | **endu'unce** |  | wuz pas |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **sot up** |  | en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **smoke** |  | en |  |  |  |  |  | nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: 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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