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title: Ole Brer Rabbit, he sot off en watch de motions, he did, en he sorte… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Ole Brer Rabbit, he sot off en watch de motions, he did, en he sorter shet one eye en sing to his chilluns: Who acts: Ole, sot. 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 3

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Ole Brer Rabbit, he sot off en watch de motions, he did, en he sorter shet one eye en sing to his chilluns:

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**Who acts:** Ole, sot · **What happens:** sot, watch, do, shet · **To what, where:** de motions, en, en sing

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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 (Ole, sot), 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:pg2306:26:3
# text = Ole Brer Rabbit, he sot off en watch de motions, he did, en he sorter shet one eye en sing to his chilluns:
1	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	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	sot	sot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	watch	watch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	motions	motion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	shet	shet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	chilluns	chillun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sot** |  | Ole |  |  |  |  | off en | tree rules |
| 2 | **watch** | present | Ole | de motions |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motion=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past | sot | en |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality |
| 4 | **shet** | infinitive | sot | en sing |  |  |  | to sot's chilluns | 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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