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title: "Leas'ways," continued Uncle Remus, "Brer Rabbit got one er de gals,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Leas'ways," continued Uncle Remus, "Brer Rabbit got one er de gals, en dey had a weddin' en a big infa'r." Who acts: Leas'ways, Brer, en dey. 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
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 34

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"Leas'ways," continued Uncle Remus, "Brer Rabbit got one er de gals, en dey had a weddin' en a big infa'r."

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**Who acts:** Leas'ways, Brer, en dey · **What happens:** continue, get, have · **To what, where:** Uncle Remus, er de gals, en · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Leas'ways, Brer, en dey), 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:pg2306:33:34
# text = "Leas'ways," continued Uncle Remus, "Brer Rabbit got one er de gals, en dey had a weddin' en a big infa'r."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Leas'ways	leas'way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	gals	gal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	weddin	weddin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	infa'r	infa'r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | Leas'ways | Uncle Remus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | past | Brer | er de gals |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gal=Stimulus |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | past | en dey | a weddin's en |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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