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title: "De time w'en Brer Fox drapt in at Brer Rabbit house, en didn't foun… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "De time w'en Brer Fox drapt in at Brer Rabbit house, en didn't foun' nobody dar ceppin' de little Rabbits. Who acts: en, nobody. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 10

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"De time w'en Brer Fox drapt in at Brer Rabbit house, en didn't foun' nobody dar ceppin' de little Rabbits.

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**Who acts:** en, nobody · **What happens:** drapt in, not foun, ceppin · **To what, where:** Rabbit house, little Rabbits

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (en, nobody), 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:pg2306:25:10
# text = "De time w'en Brer Fox drapt in at Brer Rabbit house, en didn't foun' nobody dar ceppin' de little Rabbits.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	w'en	w'en	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	list	_	_
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	drapt	drapt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	foun	foun	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	21	nsubj	_	_
20	dar	dar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ceppin	ceppin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	conj	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drapt in** *in a quote* | present | en *not said here* |  |  | Rabbit house | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **foun** *in a quote* | past · do-support | en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ceppin** *in a quote* |  | nobody | little Rabbits |  |  |  |  | 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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