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title: Tobe, he put out, he did, en bring some water in his hat, but by de… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Tobe, he put out, he did, en bring some water in his hat, but by de time he got back Brer Rabbit done out en gone. Who acts: Tobe, en, Rabbit done en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 46

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Tobe, he put out, he did, en bring some water in his hat, but by de time he got back Brer Rabbit done out en gone.

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**Who acts:** Tobe, en, Rabbit done en · **What happens:** put out, do, bring, get back, do out, go · **To what, where:** water, hat, de time

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tobe, en, Rabbit done en), 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:pg2306:37:46
# text = Tobe, he put out, he did, en bring some water in his hat, but by de time he got back Brer Rabbit done out en gone.
1	Tobe	Tobe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
27	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put out** | past | Tobe |  |  |  |  | Tobe *vocative* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | past | Tobe |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring** | infinitive | en | some water |  | en's hat |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 4 | **get back** | past | en | de time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer time=Stimulus |
| 5 | **do out** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **go** | participle | Rabbit done en |  |  |  | time |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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