--- title: Ef ole Brer Rabbit hadn't er got kotch up wid, de nabers 'ud er took… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Ef ole Brer Rabbit hadn't er got kotch up wid, de nabers 'ud er took 'im for a ha'nt, en in dem times dey bu'nt witches 'fo' you could squinch yo' eyeballs. Who acts: Brer, er, wid, you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match A --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/24/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/24/) / 8 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 8 Ef ole Brer Rabbit hadn't er got kotch up wid, de nabers 'ud er took 'im for a ha'nt, en in dem times dey bu'nt witches 'fo' you could squinch yo' eyeballs. **Who acts:** Brer, er, wid, you · **What happens:** have, not get up, take, squinch · **To what, where:** kotch, bu'nt witches, yo eyeballs 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, er, wid, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:24:8 # text = Ef ole Brer Rabbit hadn't er got kotch up wid, de nabers 'ud er took 'im for a ha'nt, en in dem times dey bu'nt witches 'fo' you could squinch yo' eyeballs. 1 Ef Ef PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 ole ole NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod:desc _ _ 3 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 7 er er NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 9 kotch kotch NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 11 wid wid NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 11 conj _ _ 14 nabers naber NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod:poss _ _ 15 ' 's PART POS _ 14 case _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ud ud NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 er er NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 19 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 im im PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 conj _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 ha'nt ha'nt NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 dem dem NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 29 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 bu'nt bu'nt NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 witches witch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 32 ' 's PART POS _ 31 case _ SpaceAfter=No 33 fo for ADP IN Abbr=Yes 37 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 squinch squinch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 38 yo yo NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 eyeballs eyeball NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Brer Ef ole | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **get up** | past | er | kotch | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kotch=Stimulus | | 3 | **take** | past | wid | bu'nt witches | | | time | for a ha'nt and en | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent witch=Theme for ha'nt=Beneficiary | | 4 | **squinch** | could | you | yo eyeballs | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/24/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/24/9/) - ↑ back to [XXI. 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