--- title: Ole Brer Rabbit, he wuz off some'rs raiding on a collard patch, en o… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Ole Brer Rabbit, he wuz off some'rs raiding on a collard patch, en ole Miss Rabbit she wuz tendin' on a quiltin' in de naberhood, en wiles de little Rabbits wuz playin' hidin'-switch, in drapt Brer Fox. Who acts: Ole, wuz some'rs, en wiles, little Rabbits. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ole, wuz some'rs, en wiles, little Rabbits), 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:pg2306:25:11 # text = Ole Brer Rabbit, he wuz off some'rs raiding on a collard patch, en ole Miss Rabbit she wuz tendin' on a quiltin' in de naberhood, en wiles de little Rabbits wuz playin' hidin'-switch, in drapt Brer Fox. 1 Ole Ole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 2 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 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 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 7 off off ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 some'rs some'r NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 9 raiding raid VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 collard collard NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 16 ole ole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 Rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 wuz wuz VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 tendin tendin NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 quiltin quiltin NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 29 compound _ _ 29 naberhood naberhood NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 wiles wile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 de de VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 34 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 Rabbits rabbit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 wuz wuz VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 ccomp _ _ 37 playin playin NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 39 hidin hidin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 switch switch NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 drapt drapt NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 46 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wuz off** | | Ole | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **some'r** | | Ole | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **raid** | gerund | wuz some'rs *not said here* | | | a collard patch | | | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **wuz** | present | wuz some'rs | tendin | | a quiltin | | | tree rules | | 5 | **de** | present | en wiles | | | de naberhood | | | tree rules | | 6 | **wuz** | present | little Rabbits | playin and hidin and switch | | | | drapt Brer Fox *obl* | 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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/25/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/25/12/) - ↑ back to [XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/25/)