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title: "But 'fo' dey got down fum dar, Brer Rabbit done tole all 'bout de c… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "But 'fo' dey got down fum dar, Brer Rabbit done tole all 'bout de crap, en he hatter prommus fer ter 'vide fa'r en squar. Who acts: dey, you. 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 pragm
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 30

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"But 'fo' dey got down fum dar, Brer Rabbit done tole all 'bout de crap, en he hatter prommus fer ter 'vide fa'r en squar.

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**Who acts:** dey, you · **What happens:** get down, fum, squar · **To what, where:** dar, en

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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 (dey, you), 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:pg2306:24:30
# text = "But 'fo' dey got down fum dar, Brer Rabbit done tole all 'bout de crap, en he hatter prommus fer ter 'vide fa'r en squar.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	7	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	fum	fum	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	done	done	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	tole	tole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	de	de	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	crap	crap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
24	hatter	hatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	prommus	prommus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
27	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	vide	vide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	fa'r	fa'r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	squar	squar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get down** *in a quote* | past | dey |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **fum** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | dar |  |  |  | Rabbit done tole  bout de crap and en *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **squar** *in a quote* |  | Dey | en *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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