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title: "Brer Rabbit, he wuz high up fer de job, but he study en study, he d… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Brer Rabbit, he wuz high up fer de job, but he study en study, he did, how he gwineter git 'cross de water, kaze ev'y time he git his foot wet all de fambly kotch col'. Who acts: Rabbit. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 19

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"Brer Rabbit, he wuz high up fer de job, but he study en study, he did, how he gwineter git 'cross de water, kaze ev'y time he git his foot wet all de fambly kotch col'.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit · **What happens:** wuz, study, do, git · **To what, where:** fer de job, en study, gwineter git cross

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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 (Rabbit), 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:pg2306:24:19
# text = "Brer Rabbit, he wuz high up fer de job, but he study en study, he did, how he gwineter git 'cross de water, kaze ev'y time he git his foot wet all de fambly kotch col'.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
10	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	study	study	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
16	en	en	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	gwineter	gwinet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
25	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
28	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	29	compound	_	_
29	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	ev'y	ev'y	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	parataxis	_	_
39	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	43	advmod	_	_
40	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	43	compound	_	_
41	fambly	fambly	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
42	kotch	kotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	col	col	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wuz** *in a quote* | present | Rabbit | fer de job |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **study** *in a quote* | present | Rabbit | en study |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent study=Topic |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Rabbit | gwineter git cross and de water and kaze |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Eventuality |
| 4 | **git** *in a quote* |  | Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | 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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