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title: How Mr. Rabbit succeeded in raising a Dust. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: How Mr. Rabbit succeeded in raising a Dust. 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 28

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How Mr. Rabbit succeeded in raising a Dust.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit · **What happens:** succeed, raise · **To what, where:** Dust

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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:pg2306:3:28
# text = How Mr. Rabbit succeeded in raising a Dust.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	raising	raise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** | past | Rabbit  Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **raise** | gerund | Rabbit  Mr. *not said here* | a Dust |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=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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