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title: "One time when Brer Rabbit wuz gwine lopin' home fum a frolic w'at d… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "One time when Brer Rabbit wuz gwine lopin' home fum a frolic w'at dey bin havin' up at Miss Meadows's, who should he happin up wid but ole Brer B'ar. Who acts: Brer, w'at, Miss Meadows. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, with
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 25

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"One time when Brer Rabbit wuz gwine lopin' home fum a frolic w'at dey bin havin' up at Miss Meadows's, who should he happin up wid but ole Brer B'ar.

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**Who acts:** Brer, w'at, Miss Meadows · **What happens:** fum up, havin, happin up · **To what, where:** Miss Meadows

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer, w'at, Miss Meadows), 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:pg2306:31:25
# text = "One time when Brer Rabbit wuz gwine lopin' home fum a frolic w'at dey bin havin' up at Miss Meadows's, who should he happin up wid but ole Brer B'ar.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
6	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	lopin	lopin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	fum	fum	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
14	frolic	frolic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
15	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	havin	havin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Meadows	Meadows	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
27	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	happin	happin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
34	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fum up** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brer |  |  | Miss Meadows | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **havin** *in a quote* |  | w'at |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **happin up** *in a quote* | should | Miss Meadows |  |  |  |  | wid *property* | tree rules |

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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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