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title: Brer Rabbit she gwineter kill, en Tobe she gwineter lam ef its de la… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Rabbit she gwineter kill, en Tobe she gwineter lam ef its de las' ack. Who acts: head. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 51

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Brer Rabbit she gwineter kill, en Tobe she gwineter lam ef its de las' ack.

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**Who acts:** head · **What happens:** ef · **To what, where:** ack

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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 (head), 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:pg2306:37:51
# text = Brer Rabbit she gwineter kill, en Tobe she gwineter lam ef its de las' ack.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	gwineter	gwinet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	Tobe	Tobe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	gwineter	gwinet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
11	lam	lam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	las	la	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	ack	ack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ef** |  | head | ef's de las's ack |  |  |  |  | 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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