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title: So den Brer Rabbit, he ax him howdy, he did, en Brer B'ar, he 'spon'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: So den Brer Rabbit, he ax him howdy, he did, en Brer B'ar, he 'spon' dat he wuz mighty po'ly, en dey amble 'long, dey did, sorter familious like, but Brer Rabbit, he keep one eye on Brer B'ar, en Brer B'ar, he study how he gwine nab Brer Rabbit. Who acts: den, dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His So
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 35

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So den Brer Rabbit, he ax him howdy, he did, en Brer B'ar, he 'spon' dat he wuz mighty po'ly, en dey amble 'long, dey did, sorter familious like, but Brer Rabbit, he keep one eye on Brer B'ar, en Brer B'ar, he study how he gwine nab Brer Rabbit.

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**Who acts:** den, dey · **What happens:** ax, do, dat, wuz, keep, study · **To what, where:** Brer, en, mighty po'ly, sorter, Brer Rabbit

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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 (den, dey), 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:pg2306:31:35
# text = So den Brer Rabbit, he ax him howdy, he did, en Brer B'ar, he 'spon' dat he wuz mighty po'ly, en dey amble 'long, dey did, sorter familious like, but Brer Rabbit, he keep one eye on Brer B'ar, en Brer B'ar, he study how he gwine nab Brer Rabbit.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ax	ax	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	howdy	howdy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
16	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	spon	spon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
25	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	po'ly	po'ly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	amble	amble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	familious	familious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
39	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	37	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
41	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
42	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
47	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	_
48	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	on	on	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
51	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	appos	_	_
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	study	study	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	advcl	_	_
59	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	62	advmod	_	_
60	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
61	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
62	nab	nab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	ccomp	_	_
63	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	compound	_	_
64	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ax** | infinitive | den | Brer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past | den | en |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality |
| 3 | **dat** |  | den |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wuz** | present | den | mighty po'ly |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | past | dey | sorter |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorter=Eventuality |
| 6 | **keep** | present | den | Brer Rabbit |  | Brer |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on brer=Location |
| 7 | **study** | present | den |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **nab** | infinitive | den | Brer Rabbit |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Patient |

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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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