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title: Nex' mawnin' w'en ole Brer Rabbit come slippin' 'long en crope thoo… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Nex' mawnin' w'en ole Brer Rabbit come slippin' 'long en crope thoo de crack, de loop-knot kotch 'im behime de fo'legs, en de saplin' flew'd up, en dar he wuz 'twix' de heavens en de yeth. Who acts: Nex, de saplin. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 12

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Nex' mawnin' w'en ole Brer Rabbit come slippin' 'long en crope thoo de crack, de loop-knot kotch 'im behime de fo'legs, en de saplin' flew'd up, en dar he wuz 'twix' de heavens en de yeth.

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**Who acts:** Nex, de saplin · **What happens:** come, fly, ' up, wuz · **To what, where:** slippin, en

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nex, de saplin), 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:pg2306:26:12
# text = Nex' mawnin' w'en ole Brer Rabbit come slippin' 'long en crope thoo de crack, de loop-knot kotch 'im behime de fo'legs, en de saplin' flew'd up, en dar he wuz 'twix' de heavens en de yeth.
1	Nex	Nex	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	mawnin	mawnin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	w'en	w'en	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	list	_	_
6	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	slippin	slippin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	crope	crope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	thoo	thoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	crack	crack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
21	loop	loop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	knot	knot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	kotch	kotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	im	im	X	FW	_	27	compound	_	_
27	behime	behime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	flat:foreign	_	_
29	fo'legs	fo'leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	compound	_	_
33	saplin	saplin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
35	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	'd	'	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	xcomp	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
43	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	twix	twix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	44	punct	_	_
46	de	de	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	compound	_	_
48	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
49	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	50	compound	_	_
50	yeth	yeth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Nex | slippin and long en crope thoo |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location slippin=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | past | de saplin | en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **' up** | participle | de saplin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wuz** |  | Nex |  |  |  |  |  | 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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