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title: A Story about the Little Rabbits XXIII. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: A Story about the Little Rabbits XXIII. 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 21

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A Story about the Little Rabbits XXIII.

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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: 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:pg2306:3:21
# text = A Story about the Little Rabbits XXIII.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	XXIII	XXIII	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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