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title: "Den Brer B'ar, he ax Brer Rabbit w'at he doin' up dar in de element… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Den Brer B'ar, he ax Brer Rabbit w'at he doin' up dar in de elements, en Brer Rabbit, he up'n say he makin' dollar minnit. Who acts: Brer, doin dar. 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 pragm
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 21

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"Den Brer B'ar, he ax Brer Rabbit w'at he doin' up dar in de elements, en Brer Rabbit, he up'n say he makin' dollar minnit.

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**Who acts:** Brer, doin dar · **What happens:** ax, doin, up'n, say, makin · **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, doin dar), 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:pg2306:26:21
# text = "Den Brer B'ar, he ax Brer Rabbit w'at he doin' up dar in de elements, en Brer Rabbit, he up'n say he makin' dollar minnit.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	doin	doin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound	_	_
15	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	elements	element	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	up'n	up'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	makin	makin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
30	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	minnit	minnit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ax** *in a quote* |  | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **doin** *in a quote* |  | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **up'n** *in a quote* |  | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | doin dar in de elements and en |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **makin** *in a quote* |  | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | 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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