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title: De little Rabbits wuz so fat dat dey fa'rly make his mouf water, but… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De little Rabbits wuz so fat dat dey fa'rly make his mouf water, but he 'member 'bout Brer Wolf, en he skeer'd fer ter gobble urn up ceppin' he got some skuse. Who acts: little Rabbits, De wuz, Rabbit, fer ter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a S
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 12

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De little Rabbits wuz so fat dat dey fa'rly make his mouf water, but he 'member 'bout Brer Wolf, en he skeer'd fer ter gobble urn up ceppin' he got some skuse.

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**Who acts:** little Rabbits, De wuz, Rabbit, fer ter · **What happens:** wuz, make, member, skeer, gobble, urn up · **To what, where:** mouf water, en skeer, ceppin, skuse

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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 (little Rabbits, De wuz, Rabbit, fer ter), 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:pg2306:25:12
# text = De little Rabbits wuz so fat dat dey fa'rly make his mouf water, but he 'member 'bout Brer Wolf, en he skeer'd fer ter gobble urn up ceppin' he got some skuse.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
6	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	fa'rly	fa'rly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mouf	mouf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	bout	bout	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	skeer	skeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	gobble	gobble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	urn	urn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	ceppin	ceppin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	38	det	_	_
38	skuse	skuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wuz** |  | little Rabbits |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | De wuz | Rabbit's mouf water |  |  |  | fa'rly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Product |
| 3 | **member** |  | Rabbit |  |  |  |  | bout Brer Wolf | tree rules |
| 4 | **skeer** |  | Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **gobble** | present | fer ter | en skeer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **urn up** | infinitive | fer ter *not said here* | ceppin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **get** | past | Rabbit | some skuse |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skuse=Stimulus |

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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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