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title: "Den ole Brer Buzzard, he laff, he did, twel he shake, en Brer Rabbi… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Den ole Brer Buzzard, he laff, he did, twel he shake, en Brer Rabbit, he sing out: Who acts: Brer, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 27

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"Den ole Brer Buzzard, he laff, he did, twel he shake, en Brer Rabbit, he sing out:

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**Who acts:** Brer, en · **What happens:** laff, twel, shake, s out · **To what, where:** Brer Rabbit

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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, en), 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:pg2306:24:27
# text = "Den ole Brer Buzzard, he laff, he did, twel he shake, en Brer Rabbit, he sing out:
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ole	ole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	laff	laff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	twel	twel	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sing	s	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laff** *in a quote* |  | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **twel** *in a quote* | past · do-support |  | Brer Rabbit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **shake** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **s out** *in a quote* | gerund | en |  |  |  |  |  | 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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