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title: Ole Brer Rabbit, he ain't sayin' nuthin', but he feelin' mighty lone… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Ole Brer Rabbit, he ain't sayin' nuthin', but he feelin' mighty lonesome, en he sot dar lookin' like eve'y minnit wuz gwineter be de nex'. Who acts: atter, en, mighty lonesome. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, w
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 26

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Ole Brer Rabbit, he ain't sayin' nuthin', but he feelin' mighty lonesome, en he sot dar lookin' like eve'y minnit wuz gwineter be de nex'.

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**Who acts:** atter, en, mighty lonesome · **What happens:** feelin, lookin, be · **To what, where:** de nex

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (atter, en, mighty lonesome), 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:pg2306:32:26
# text = Ole Brer Rabbit, he ain't sayin' nuthin', but he feelin' mighty lonesome, en he sot dar lookin' like eve'y minnit wuz gwineter be de nex'.
1	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	sayin	sayin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	nuthin	nuthin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	feelin	feelin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
16	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	lonesome	lonesome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	sot	sot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	dar	dar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	lookin	lookin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	eve'y	eve'y	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	minnit	minnit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
31	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	32	compound	_	_
32	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **feelin** |  | atter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lookin** |  | en |  |  |  |  | like eve'y wuz gwineter | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive | mighty lonesome | de nex |  |  |  |  | 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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