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title: Mr. Rabbit finds his Match at last XIX. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Rabbit finds his Match at last XIX. Who acts: Rabbit. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Legends of the Old Plantation, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Legends of the Old Plantation, sentence 17

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Mr. Rabbit finds his Match at last XIX.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit · **What happens:** find · **To what, where:** Match, last XIX

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Legends of the Old Plantation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg2306:3:17
# text = Mr. Rabbit finds his Match at last XIX.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	Match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	XIX	XIX	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | Rabbit  Mr. | Rabbit's Match |  | last XIX |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent match=Theme at xix=Asset |

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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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