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title: En den Brer Rabbit he tuck de chilluns by der years en make um set d… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: En den Brer Rabbit he tuck de chilluns by der years en make um set down, en den him and Miss Rabbit sorter dally roun' waitin' for Brer Fox. Who acts: Brer, en den. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, with its depen
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 21

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En den Brer Rabbit he tuck de chilluns by der years en make um set down, en den him and Miss Rabbit sorter dally roun' waitin' for Brer Fox.

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**Who acts:** Brer, en den · **What happens:** tuck, make, set down, rabbit · **To what, where:** de, sorter

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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 (Brer, en den), 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:pg2306:4:21
# text = En den Brer Rabbit he tuck de chilluns by der years en make um set down, en den him and Miss Rabbit sorter dally roun' waitin' for Brer Fox.
1	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tuck	tuck	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	obl	_	_
8	chilluns	chillun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	compound	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	um	um	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	Rabbit	rabbit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
24	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	dally	dally	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
28	waitin	waitin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tuck** | infinitive | Brer  En den | de |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chillun=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present |  |  |  |  |  | by years en | tree rules |
| 3 | **set down** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **rabbit** | present | en den  Brer | sorter |  |  |  | roun and waitin for Brer Fox *obl* | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorter=Location |

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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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