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title: W'en ole man Rabbit say scoot,' dey scooted, en w'en ole Miss Rabbit… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: W'en ole man Rabbit say scoot,' dey scooted, en w'en ole Miss Rabbit say 'scat,' dey scatted. Who acts: W'en ole man Rabbit, w'en ole Miss Rabbit. 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 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 3

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W'en ole man Rabbit say scoot,' dey scooted, en w'en ole Miss Rabbit say 'scat,' dey scatted.

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**Who acts:** W'en ole man Rabbit, w'en ole Miss Rabbit · **What happens:** say, scoot, scat · **To what, where:** scoot, dey, scat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (W'en ole man Rabbit, w'en ole Miss Rabbit), 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:pg2306:25:3
# text = W'en ole man Rabbit say scoot,' dey scooted, en w'en ole Miss Rabbit say 'scat,' dey scatted.
1	W'en	w'en	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	scoot	scoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	scooted	scoot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	w'en	w'en	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
14	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	scat	scat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	scatted	scat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | W'en ole man Rabbit | scoot and en |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent scoot=Topic |
| 2 | **scoot** | participle |  | dey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | w'en ole Miss Rabbit | scat |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent scat=Topic |
| 4 | **scat** | participle |  | dey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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