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title: Brer Rabbit, he 'low dat he kin see de honey-koam. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Rabbit, he 'low dat he kin see de honey-koam. Who acts: Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 44

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Brer Rabbit, he 'low dat he kin see de honey-koam.

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**Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** dat, kin, see · **To what, where:** low dat, de

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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), 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:pg2306:31:44
# text = Brer Rabbit, he 'low dat he kin see de honey-koam.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	kin	kin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	obl	_	_
12	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	koam	koam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dat** |  | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **kin** | past | Brer | low dat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | Brer *not said here* | de |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer koam=Stimulus |

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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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