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title: He sorter speck who de somebody is, but ole Brer Rabbit he cover his… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He sorter speck who de somebody is, but ole Brer Rabbit he cover his tracks so cute dat Brer Fox dunner how ter ketch 'im. Who acts: git, ole Brer Rabbit. 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 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 9

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He sorter speck who de somebody is, but ole Brer Rabbit he cover his tracks so cute dat Brer Fox dunner how ter ketch 'im.

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**Who acts:** git, ole Brer Rabbit · **What happens:** speck, de, be, cover · **To what, where:** somebody, tracks

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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 (git, ole Brer Rabbit), 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:pg2306:26:9
# text = He sorter speck who de somebody is, but ole Brer Rabbit he cover his tracks so cute dat Brer Fox dunner how ter ketch 'im.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	sorter	sorter	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	speck	speck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	de	de	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	tracks	track	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	cute	cute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
19	dat	dat	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	dunner	dun	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	conj	_	_
23	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
24	ter	ter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	'	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speck** |  | git |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **de** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | somebody |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cover** | infinitive | ole Brer Rabbit | git's tracks |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent track=Destination |

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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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