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title: So Brer Buzzard, he kyar 'im back, en Brer Rabbit he walk weak in de… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: So Brer Buzzard, he kyar 'im back, en Brer Rabbit he walk weak in de knees a mont' atterwuds." Who acts: fer, Brer Brer Rabbit. 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 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 31

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So Brer Buzzard, he kyar 'im back, en Brer Rabbit he walk weak in de knees a mont' atterwuds."

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**Who acts:** fer, Brer Brer Rabbit · **What happens:** kyar, walk · **To what, where:** weak

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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 (fer, Brer Brer 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:pg2306:24:31
# text = So Brer Buzzard, he kyar 'im back, en Brer Rabbit he walk weak in de knees a mont' atterwuds."
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
3	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	kyar	kyar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	im	im	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	conj	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
12	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	mont	mont	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	atterwuds	atterwud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kyar** |  | fer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** | present | Brer Brer Rabbit | weak |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme weak=Trajectory |

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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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