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title: "One day Brer Rabbit wuz gwine down de road shakin' his long, bushy… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "One day Brer Rabbit wuz gwine down de road shakin' his long, bushy tail, w'en who should he strike up wid but ole Brer Fox gwine amblin' long wid a big string er fish! Who acts: long bushy tail. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 20

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"One day Brer Rabbit wuz gwine down de road shakin' his long, bushy tail, w'en who should he strike up wid but ole Brer Fox gwine amblin' long wid a big string er fish!

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**Who acts:** long bushy tail · **What happens:** strike up · **To what, where:** wid Brer gwine amblin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long bushy tail), 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:pg2306:28:20
# text = "One day Brer Rabbit wuz gwine down de road shakin' his long, bushy tail, w'en who should he strike up wid but ole Brer Fox gwine amblin' long wid a big string er fish!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	de	de	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	shakin	shakin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	bushy	bushy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
29	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	amblin	amblin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
33	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
36	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
37	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike up** *in a quote* | should | gwine's long bushy tail and w'en | wid Brer gwine amblin and long wid  a big er fish |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amblin=Patient |

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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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