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title: But Brer Rabbit, he done 'termin' fer ter see some fun, en w'iles al… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: But Brer Rabbit, he done 'termin' fer ter see some fun, en w'iles all dis 'uz gwine on, he run 'roun' ter Brer B'ar house, en holler en tell 'im w'ich dey wuz somebody 'stroyin' un his 'simmons, en Brer B'ar, he hustle off fer ter ketch 'im. Who acts: Brer Rabbit, Rabbit, Brer. A sentence of «Uncle 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 37

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But Brer Rabbit, he done 'termin' fer ter see some fun, en w'iles all dis 'uz gwine on, he run 'roun' ter Brer B'ar house, en holler en tell 'im w'ich dey wuz somebody 'stroyin' un his 'simmons, en Brer B'ar, he hustle off fer ter ketch 'im.

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**Who acts:** Brer Rabbit, Rabbit, Brer · **What happens:** do on, see, roun, hustle off · **To what, where:** en w'iles, fun

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer Rabbit, Rabbit, Brer), 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:pg2306:30:37
# text = But Brer Rabbit, he done 'termin' fer ter see some fun, en w'iles all dis 'uz gwine on, he run 'roun' ter Brer B'ar house, en holler en tell 'im w'ich dey wuz somebody 'stroyin' un his 'simmons, en Brer B'ar, he hustle off fer ter ketch 'im.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	termin	termin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	w'iles	w'ile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	uz	uz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
30	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
33	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
36	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
39	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	w'ich	w'ich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
42	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	_
44	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	43	parataxis	_	_
45	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	stroyin	stroyin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	46	punct	_	_
48	un	un	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	46	conj	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
50	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	simmons	simmon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	_
54	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	appos	_	_
55	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
57	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	hustle	hustle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	parataxis	_	_
59	off	off	ADP	RP	_	58	compound:prt	_	_
60	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	58	conj	_	_
61	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	compound	_	_
62	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nmod:poss	_	_
63	'	's	PART	POS	_	62	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do on** | past | Brer Rabbit | en w'iles |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | Brer Rabbit *not said here* | some fun |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fun=Stimulus |
| 3 | **roun** |  | Rabbit |  |  |  |  | ter Brer house | tree rules |
| 4 | **hustle off** | present | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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