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title: Den Brer Rabbit, he put out fer Brer Fox house, en w'en he got dar h… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Brer Rabbit, he put out fer Brer Fox house, en w'en he got dar he sing out: Who acts: den, Brer. 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 every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 25

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Den Brer Rabbit, he put out fer Brer Fox house, en w'en he got dar he sing out:

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**Who acts:** den, Brer · **What happens:** put out, get, sing out · **To what, where:** Den, dar

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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 (den, Brer), 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:pg2306:26:25
# text = Den Brer Rabbit, he put out fer Brer Fox house, en w'en he got dar he sing out:
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
10	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put out** | past | den | Den |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | past | Brer  fer | dar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sing out** *speech: express* | infinitive | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |

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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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