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title: "De little Rabbits, dey got out de sugar-cane, dey did, en dey rastl… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "De little Rabbits, dey got out de sugar-cane, dey did, en dey rastle wid it, en sweat over it, but twan't no use. Who acts: De little Rabbits, dey, en dey, wid. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, with its dependenc
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 17

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"De little Rabbits, dey got out de sugar-cane, dey did, en dey rastle wid it, en sweat over it, but twan't no use.

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**Who acts:** De little Rabbits, dey, en dey, wid, twa · **What happens:** get out, do, rastle, wid, not use · **To what, where:** de sugar cane

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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 (De little Rabbits, dey, en dey, wid), 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:pg2306:25:17
# text = "De little Rabbits, dey got out de sugar-cane, dey did, en dey rastle wid it, en sweat over it, but twan't no use.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	cane	cane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	rastle	rastle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
20	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	sweat	sweat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	twa	twa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get out** *in a quote* | past | De little Rabbits | de sugar cane |  |  |  | out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | past | dey |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rastle** *in a quote* | infinitive | en dey |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wid** *in a quote* |  | wid |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **use** *in a quote* |  | twa |  |  |  |  |  | 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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