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title: "Right dar's whar Brer Rabbit drap his watermillion, kaze he tuck'n… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Right dar's whar Brer Rabbit drap his watermillion, kaze he tuck'n sot out dat night en went a fishin'. Who acts: whar, tuck'n sot. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 22

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"Right dar's whar Brer Rabbit drap his watermillion, kaze he tuck'n sot out dat night en went a fishin'.

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**Who acts:** whar, tuck'n sot · **What happens:** drap, sot out, go · **To what, where:** watermillion, fishin

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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 (whar, tuck'n 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:pg2306:28:22
# text = "Right dar's whar Brer Rabbit drap his watermillion, kaze he tuck'n sot out dat night en went a fishin'.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	whar	whar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	drap	drap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	watermillion	watermillion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	tuck'n	tuck'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	sot	sot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fishin	fishin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drap** *in a quote* | present | Right dar's whar | whar's watermillion and kaze |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sot out** *in a quote* |  | whar |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | past | tuck'n sot | a fishin |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fishin=Theme |

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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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