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title: She did dat, and dat w'at make all deze yer bob-tail rabbits w'at yo… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: She did dat, and dat w'at make all deze yer bob-tail rabbits w'at you see hoppin' en skaddlin' thoo de woods." Who acts: dat, you. 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 pragmatics
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 29

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She did dat, and dat w'at make all deze yer bob-tail rabbits w'at you see hoppin' en skaddlin' thoo de woods."

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**Who acts:** dat, you · **What happens:** do, make, deze, see · **To what, where:** rabbits w'at, hoppin

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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 (dat, you), 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:pg2306:28:29
# text = She did dat, and dat w'at make all deze yer bob-tail rabbits w'at you see hoppin' en skaddlin' thoo de woods."
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	deze	deze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
12	bob	bob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	compound	_	_
16	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	hoppin	hoppin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
21	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	skaddlin	skaddlin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
24	thoo	thoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | dat |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | present | dat and dat w'at |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **deze** | infinitive | dat and dat w'at *not said here* | yer's rabbits w'at |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | present | you | hoppin |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hoppin=Stimulus |

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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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