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title: Brer B'ar 'low dat he take de job, en den Brer Rabbit show 'im how t… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer B'ar 'low dat he take de job, en den Brer Rabbit show 'im how ter ben' down de saplin', en 'twan't long 'fo' Brer B'ar wuz swingin' up dar in Brer Rabbit's place. Who acts: Brer, de job. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Be
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 24

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Brer B'ar 'low dat he take de job, en den Brer Rabbit show 'im how ter ben' down de saplin', en 'twan't long 'fo' Brer B'ar wuz swingin' up dar in Brer Rabbit's place.

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**Who acts:** Brer, de job · **What happens:** take, show · **To what, where:** low dat, im

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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, de job), 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:pg2306:26:24
# text = Brer B'ar 'low dat he take de job, en den Brer Rabbit show 'im how ter ben' down de saplin', en 'twan't long 'fo' Brer B'ar wuz swingin' up dar in Brer Rabbit's place.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	im	im	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	ccomp	_	_
19	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	ben	ben	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
22	down	down	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	compound	_	_
24	saplin	saplin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	',	',	PART	POS	_	24	dep	_	_
26	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	twa	twa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	37	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
34	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
35	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	_
36	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	swingin	swingin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
39	up	up	ADP	RP	_	37	compound	_	_
40	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
42	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	's	's	PART	POS	_	43	case	_	_
45	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | Brer | Brer's low dat |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **show** | present | de job and en den | im |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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