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title: "En de little Rabbits, dey hustle 'roun' en rastle wid it, but they… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "En de little Rabbits, dey hustle 'roun' en rastle wid it, but they couldn't broke it. Who acts: En, hustle. 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 every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 22

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"En de little Rabbits, dey hustle 'roun' en rastle wid it, but they couldn't broke it.

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**Who acts:** En, hustle · **What happens:** rastle, not broke · **To what, where:** wid

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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, hustle), 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:pg2306:25:22
# text = "En de little Rabbits, dey hustle 'roun' en rastle wid it, but they couldn't broke it.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	En	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	hustle	hustle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	rastle	rastle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	broke	broke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rastle** *in a quote* | infinitive | En  little Rabbits | wid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **broke** *in a quote* | could | hustle | wid |  |  |  |  | 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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