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title: "Den Brer Rabbit scratch one year wid his off hinefoot sorter jub'us… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Den Brer Rabbit scratch one year wid his off hinefoot sorter jub'usly, en den he ups en sez, sezee: Who acts: Den, sorter, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 12

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"Den Brer Rabbit scratch one year wid his off hinefoot sorter jub'usly, en den he ups en sez, sezee:

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**Who acts:** Den, sorter, en · **What happens:** scratch, wi, up, say · **To what, where:** hinefoot sorter, den ups · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den, sorter, 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:pg2306:4:12
# text = "Den Brer Rabbit scratch one year wid his off hinefoot sorter jub'usly, en den he ups en sez, sezee:
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	scratch	scratch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	hinefoot	hinefoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	jub'usly	jub'usly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scratch** *in a quote* | infinitive | Den |  |  |  |  | jub'usly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wi** *in a quote* | past | Den *not said here* | Den's hinefoot sorter |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **up** *in a quote* |  | sorter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | en | den ups and sezee *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent up=Topic |

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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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