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title: "en wid dat he put out for Brer Coon house en borrer his slippers. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "en wid dat he put out for Brer Coon house en borrer his slippers. Who acts: wid dat. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 12

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"en wid dat he put out for Brer Coon house en borrer his slippers.

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**Who acts:** wid dat · **What happens:** put out

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wid dat), 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:pg2306:33:12
# text = "en wid dat he put out for Brer Coon house en borrer his slippers.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
10	Coon	Coon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	borrer	borr	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	xcomp	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put out** *in a quote* | past | wid dat |  |  |  |  | for Brer house en; borr *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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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