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title: Den Brer Rabbit, he grab holt er de sludge, en he lipt up in de a'r… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Brer Rabbit, he grab holt er de sludge, en he lipt up in de a'r en come down on de rock all at de same time--pow!--en de ashes, dey flew'd up so, dey did, dat Brer Fox, he tuck'n had a sneezin' spell, en Miss Meadows en de gals dey up'n koff. Who acts: den, dey, sneezin. A sentence of «Uncle Rem
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 30

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Den Brer Rabbit, he grab holt er de sludge, en he lipt up in de a'r en come down on de rock all at de same time--pow!--en de ashes, dey flew'd up so, dey did, dat Brer Fox, he tuck'n had a sneezin' spell, en Miss Meadows en de gals dey up'n koff.

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**Who acts:** den, dey, sneezin · **What happens:** holt, lipt up, come down, fly, do, dat · **To what, where:** en, de a'r en, de rock, Brer Fox, spell

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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 (den, dey, sneezin), 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:pg2306:33:30
# text = Den Brer Rabbit, he grab holt er de sludge, en he lipt up in de a'r en come down on de rock all at de same time--pow!--en de ashes, dey flew'd up so, dey did, dat Brer Fox, he tuck'n had a sneezin' spell, en Miss Meadows en de gals dey up'n koff.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	grab	grab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	holt	holt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sludge	sludge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lipt	lipt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	a'r	a'r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	compound	_	_
24	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	all	all	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	de	de	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	pow	pow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
35	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	up	up	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
42	so	so	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
45	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	dat	dat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
48	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
52	tuck'n	tuck'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
53	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	advcl	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	sneezin	sneezin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	'	's	PART	POS	_	55	case	_	_
57	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
59	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	compound	_	_
60	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	_
61	Meadows	Meadow	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	62	compound	_	_
62	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	conj	_	_
63	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	62	flat:foreign	_	_
64	gals	gal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	compound	_	_
65	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	conj	_	_
66	up'n	up'n	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
67	koff	koff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **holt** |  | den |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lipt up** | past | den | en *not said here* |  | de a'r en |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come down** | present | Den and en |  |  | de rock |  | down *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rock=Location |
| 4 | **fly** | past | dey |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | past | dey |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **dat** | infinitive |  | Brer Fox |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** | past | den | a sneezin's spell and en Meadows en and gals dey up'n koff |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Patient |
| 8 | **spell** |  | a sneezin |  |  |  |  |  | nom spell «state transitive»: poss=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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