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title: Atter 'while Brer Rabbit goes to de do', easy like, en peep out, en… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Atter 'while Brer Rabbit goes to de do', easy like, en peep out, en dar, stickin' fum behime de cornder, wuz de tip-een' er Brer Fox tail. Who acts: Brer Rabbit. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, with its dependen
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 24

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Atter 'while Brer Rabbit goes to de do', easy like, en peep out, en dar, stickin' fum behime de cornder, wuz de tip-een' er Brer Fox tail.

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**Who acts:** Brer Rabbit · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** de

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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 Rabbit), 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:pg2306:4:24
# text = Atter 'while Brer Rabbit goes to de do', easy like, en peep out, en dar, stickin' fum behime de cornder, wuz de tip-een' er Brer Fox tail.
1	Atter	Atter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	obl	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	',	',	PART	POS	_	6	obl	_	_
11	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
12	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	peep	peep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	stickin	stickin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
23	fum	fum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	behime	behime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
25	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	compound	_	_
26	cornder	cornder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	28	flat:foreign	_	_
30	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	een	een	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
34	er	er	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
36	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	_
37	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Atter's Brer Rabbit |  |  | de |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to de=Initial\_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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