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title: De wedder wuz sorter col', en Brer Rabbit, he got 'im a bottle er dr… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De wedder wuz sorter col', en Brer Rabbit, he got 'im a bottle er dram en put out fer de creek, en w'en he git dar he pick out a good place, en he sorter squot down, he did, en let his tail hang in de water. Who acts: en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 23

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De wedder wuz sorter col', en Brer Rabbit, he got 'im a bottle er dram en put out fer de creek, en w'en he git dar he pick out a good place, en he sorter squot down, he did, en let his tail hang in de water.

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**Who acts:** en · **What happens:** get, put out, dar, pick out, squot down, do · **To what, where:** en put fer, good place, tail hang, de water

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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 (en), 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:pg2306:28:23
# text = De wedder wuz sorter col', en Brer Rabbit, he got 'im a bottle er dram en put out fer de creek, en w'en he git dar he pick out a good place, en he sorter squot down, he did, en let his tail hang in de water.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	wedder	wed	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	amod	_	_
3	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	col	col	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	',	',	PART	POS	_	5	dep	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	im	im	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	dram	dram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
20	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	compound	_	_
24	creek	creek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	parataxis	_	_
33	out	out	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	squot	squot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
42	down	down	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
50	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	hang	hang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | en | en put fer and de creek and en w'en and sorter squot |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fer=Stimulus |
| 2 | **put out** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dar** |  | en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pick out** | infinitive | en | a good place |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
| 5 | **squot down** |  | en |  |  |  |  | down *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | past | en |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **let** | past | en | en's tail hang |  | de water |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hang=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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