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title: He wuz dere, but he shuffle up kinder late, kaze w'en Miss Meadows e… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He wuz dere, but he shuffle up kinder late, kaze w'en Miss Meadows en de balance on um done gone down ter de place, Brer Rabbit, he crope 'roun' ter de ash-hopper, en fill Brer Coon's slippers full er ashes, en den he tuck'n put um on en march off. Who acts: Rabbit, kaze, wuz dere, de. A sentence of
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 17

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He wuz dere, but he shuffle up kinder late, kaze w'en Miss Meadows en de balance on um done gone down ter de place, Brer Rabbit, he crope 'roun' ter de ash-hopper, en fill Brer Coon's slippers full er ashes, en den he tuck'n put um on en march off.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, kaze, wuz dere, de · **What happens:** dere, shuffle up, en, do, go down, crope · **To what, where:** wuz dere, balance, slippers, um, en march

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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 (Rabbit, kaze, wuz dere, de), 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:pg2306:33:17
# text = He wuz dere, but he shuffle up kinder late, kaze w'en Miss Meadows en de balance on um done gone down ter de place, Brer Rabbit, he crope 'roun' ter de ash-hopper, en fill Brer Coon's slippers full er ashes, en den he tuck'n put um on en march off.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dere	dere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	shuffle	shuffle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	kinder	kind	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	w'en	w'en	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	_
14	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	Meadows	Meadow	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	compound	_	_
16	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
17	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	balance	balance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
22	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	compound	_	_
26	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	crope	crope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
33	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
36	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	34	conj	_	_
37	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	36	flat:foreign	_	_
38	ash	ash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	hopper	hopper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
43	fill	fill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
44	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nmod:poss	_	_
45	Coon	Coon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	's	's	PART	POS	_	44	case	_	_
47	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
48	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
49	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
55	tuck'n	tuck'n	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	advcl	_	_
57	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	_
58	on	on	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	_
60	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	_
61	off	off	ADP	RP	_	56	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	43	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dere** |  | Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shuffle up** | infinitive | Rabbit | wuz dere and crope and roun and en *not said here* |  |  |  | late *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dere=Patient |
| 3 | **en** |  | kaze |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | participle |  | de's balance on um *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go down** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **crope** |  | Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **fill** | present | wuz dere and crope and roun and en | Brer's slippers and full er ashes and en den |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent slipper=Patient |
| 8 | **put off** | infinitive | Rabbit | um |  | en march |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme on march=Destination |
| 9 | **balance** |  | de |  |  | um |  |  | nom balance «state intransitive»: poss=agent on=place |

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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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