--- title: Th'ee times Brer Rabbit jump up en crack his heels tergedder en come… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Th'ee times Brer Rabbit jump up en crack his heels tergedder en come down wid de sludge-hammer--ker-blam!--en eve'y time he jump up, he holler out: Who acts: Th'ee times, den. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a D --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/33/31/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raisi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/33/) / 31 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 31 Th'ee times Brer Rabbit jump up en crack his heels tergedder en come down wid de sludge-hammer--ker-blam!--en eve'y time he jump up, he holler out: **Who acts:** Th'ee times, den · **What happens:** jump up, crack, come down, holler out · **To what, where:** en, heels, eve'y time 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 (Th'ee times, den), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:33:31 # text = Th'ee times Brer Rabbit jump up en crack his heels tergedder en come down wid de sludge-hammer--ker-blam!--en eve'y time he jump up, he holler out: 1 Th'ee Th'ee PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 jump jump VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 crack crack VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 heels heel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 tergedder tergedd ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 amod _ _ 12 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 13 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 14 down down ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 wid wid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 16 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 17 sludge sludge NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 hammer hammer NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 20 -- -- PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ker ker NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 blam blam NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ! ! PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 -- -- PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 eve'y eve'y NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 holler holler NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 35 out out ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 36 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **jump up** | infinitive | Th'ee times | en | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme en=Trajectory | | 2 | **crack** | infinitive | Th'ee times *not said here* | den's heels | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent heel=Patient en=Result | | 3 | **come down** | present | Th'ee times *not said here* | | | | | down, wid *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **jump up** | infinitive | den | eve'y time *not said here* | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Trajectory | | 5 | **holler out** *speech: other* | | den | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/33/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/33/32/) - ↑ back to [XXX. 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