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title: But, never mine dat, old Brer Rabbit, he wuz dar, en he so brash dat… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: But, never mine dat, old Brer Rabbit, he wuz dar, en he so brash dat leetle mo' en he'd er grab up de sludge-hammer en er open up de racket 'fo' ennybody gun de word; but Brer Fox, he shove Brer Rabbit out'n de way en pick up de sludge hisse'f. Who acts: Rabbit, dat, Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 21

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But, never mine dat, old Brer Rabbit, he wuz dar, en he so brash dat leetle mo' en he'd er grab up de sludge-hammer en er open up de racket 'fo' ennybody gun de word; but Brer Fox, he shove Brer Rabbit out'n de way en pick up de sludge hisse'f.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, dat, Brer · **What happens:** dar, en, grab up, open up, shove, pick up · **To what, where:** brash, er, out'n way en, de sludge hisse'f

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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, dat, 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:pg2306:33:21
# text = But, never mine dat, old Brer Rabbit, he wuz dar, en he so brash dat leetle mo' en he'd er grab up de sludge-hammer en er open up de racket 'fo' ennybody gun de word; but Brer Fox, he shove Brer Rabbit out'n de way en pick up de sludge hisse'f.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	compound	_	_
5	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	brash	brash	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obl	_	_
19	dat	dat	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	nsubj	_	_
20	leetle	leetle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	er	er	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	grab	grab	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
30	sludge	sludge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
34	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	35	obl	_	_
35	open	open	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	racket	racket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	43	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	_
42	ennybody	ennybody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
44	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	45	compound	_	_
45	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
47	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
48	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
49	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	shove	shove	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
53	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	out'n	out'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
56	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	57	compound	_	_
57	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
59	pick	pick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	conj	_	_
60	up	up	ADP	RP	_	59	compound:prt	_	_
61	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
62	sludge	sludge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	compound	_	_
63	hisse'f	hisse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dar** |  | Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **en** |  | dat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grab up** | present |  | brash |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme |
| 4 | **open up** | present |  | er |  |  |  | for ennybody gun and de word; de racket *obl* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **shove** | present | Brer | out'n way en |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme |
| 6 | **pick up** | present | Brer *not said here* | de sludge hisse'f |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hisse'f=Topic |

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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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