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title: Brer Rabbit, he make like he in a wuss fix'n Brer Buzzard, en he mop… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Rabbit, he make like he in a wuss fix'n Brer Buzzard, en he mope 'roun', he did, like he fear'd dey gwineter sell 'im out. Who acts: Brer, nuthin, roun, fear dey gwineter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, with
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 15

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Brer Rabbit, he make like he in a wuss fix'n Brer Buzzard, en he mope 'roun', he did, like he fear'd dey gwineter sell 'im out.

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**Who acts:** Brer, nuthin, roun, fear dey gwineter · **What happens:** make, mope, do, sell, im out · **To what, where:** wuss fix'n, mope

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer, nuthin, roun, fear dey gwineter), 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:pg2306:24:15
# text = Brer Rabbit, he make like he in a wuss fix'n Brer Buzzard, en he mope 'roun', he did, like he fear'd dey gwineter sell 'im out.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	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	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	wuss	wuss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	fix'n	fix'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
13	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	mope	mope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'd	'd	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	im	im	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
33	out	out	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **make** | present | Brer |  |  | a wuss fix'n and en and mope |  | like nuthin | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mope** |  | nuthin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | past | roun | mope *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sell** | infinitive | fear dey gwineter |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **im out** | participle | fear dey gwineter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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