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title: "Brer B'ar, he look 'roun en bimeby he see Brer Rabbit swingin' fum… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Brer B'ar, he look 'roun en bimeby he see Brer Rabbit swingin' fum de saplin', en he holler out: Who acts: Brer, Brer Rabbit, saplin en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 17

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"Brer B'ar, he look 'roun en bimeby he see Brer Rabbit swingin' fum de saplin', en he holler out:

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**Who acts:** Brer, Brer Rabbit, saplin en · **What happens:** look, see, fum, holler out · **To what, where:** Brer, roun bimeby · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Brer, Brer Rabbit, saplin en), 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:pg2306:26:17
# text = "Brer B'ar, he look 'roun en bimeby he see Brer Rabbit swingin' fum de saplin', en he holler out:
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	roun	roun	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	amod	_	_
9	en	en	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat	_	_
10	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	swingin	swingin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	fum	fum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	compound	_	_
19	saplin	saplin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	',	',	PART	POS	_	19	dep	_	_
21	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | present | Brer | Brer |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bimeby=Attribute |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | past | Brer | roun bimeby *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bimeby=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fum** *in a quote* |  | Brer Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **holler out** *speech: other* *in a quote* |  | saplin en |  |  |  |  |  | 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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