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title: "Up dey jump, de little Rabbits did, en dey fix de sifter so 'twon't… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Up dey jump, de little Rabbits did, en dey fix de sifter so 'twon't leak, en den dey kyar de water ter ole Brer Fox. Who acts: little Rabbits, Up dey jump, two. 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 31

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"Up dey jump, de little Rabbits did, en dey fix de sifter so 'twon't leak, en den dey kyar de water ter ole Brer Fox.

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**Who acts:** little Rabbits, Up dey jump, two · **What happens:** do, fix, not leak · **To what, where:** de sifter, den dey kyar

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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, Up dey jump, two), 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:pg2306:25:31
# text = "Up dey jump, de little Rabbits did, en dey fix de sifter so 'twon't leak, en den dey kyar de water ter ole Brer Fox.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Up	up	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	conj	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
13	fix	fix	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	compound	_	_
15	sifter	sifter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	leak	leak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	kyar	kyar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	compound	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | past | little Rabbits |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fix** *in a quote* | present | Up dey jump and en dey | de sifter |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sifter=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **leak** *in a quote* | infinitive | two | den dey kyar ter ole Brer Fox |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |

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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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