--- title: Brer Rabbit say he keepin' crows out'n Brer Fox's groun' pea patch,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Brer Rabbit say he keepin' crows out'n Brer Fox's groun' pea patch, en den he ax Brer B'ar ef he don't wanter make dollar minnit, kaze he got big fambly er chilluns fer to take keer un, en den he make sech nice skeercrow. Who acts: Brer, pea patch. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayin --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/23/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/) / 23 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 23 Brer Rabbit say he keepin' crows out'n Brer Fox's groun' pea patch, en den he ax Brer B'ar ef he don't wanter make dollar minnit, kaze he got big fambly er chilluns fer to take keer un, en den he make sech nice skeercrow. **Who acts:** Brer, pea patch · **What happens:** say, crow, ax, not wanter, make, get · **To what, where:** groun, Brer ef, dollar minnit, big er chilluns fer, keer un, sech nice skeercrow · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, pea patch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:26:23 # text = Brer Rabbit say he keepin' crows out'n Brer Fox's groun' pea patch, en den he ax Brer B'ar ef he don't wanter make dollar minnit, kaze he got big fambly er chilluns fer to take keer un, en den he make sech nice skeercrow. 1 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 keepin keepin NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ' 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 ccomp _ _ 8 out'n out'n CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 groun groun NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 14 pea pea NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 ax ax NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 acl:relcl _ _ 21 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 B'ar B'ar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 flat _ _ 23 ef ef NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 26 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 wanter wanter NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 acl:relcl _ _ 28 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 29 dollar dollar NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 minnit minnit NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 kaze kaze NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 35 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 36 fambly fambly ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 er er X GW _ 39 compound _ _ 38 chilluns chillun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 compound _ _ 39 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 acl _ _ 42 keer keer NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ _ 47 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 parataxis _ _ 49 sech sech ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 50 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 skeercrow skeercrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Brer | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **crow** | | Brer | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **ax** | | pea patch and en den | Brer Fox's groun *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **wanter** | present · do-support | Brer | Brer ef *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | infinitive | | dollar minnit and kaze | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset minnit=Product | | 6 | **get** | past | Brer | big er chilluns fer | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fer=Stimulus | | 7 | **take** | to-infinitive | Brer *not said here* | keer un and en den | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent un=Theme | | 8 | **make** | present | Brer | sech nice skeercrow | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skeercrow=Product | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/24/) - ↑ back to [XXIII. 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