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title: Den Brer Rabbit shot de do' en sot down, en put his paws behime his… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Brer Rabbit shot de do' en sot down, en put his paws behime his years en begin fer ter sing: Who acts: Den, de, en, paws. 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 every 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 25

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Den Brer Rabbit shot de do' en sot down, en put his paws behime his years en begin fer ter sing:

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**Who acts:** Den, de, en, paws, years en · **What happens:** shoot, do, put, behime, begin · **To what, where:** en sot, fer ter sing

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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, de, en, paws), 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:pg2306:4:25
# text = Den Brer Rabbit shot de do' en sot down, en put his paws behime his years en begin fer ter sing:
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
8	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	sot	sot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	behime	behime	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	compound	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	begin	begin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
21	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
22	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot** | past | Den |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | de | en sot |  |  |  | down *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **put** | past | en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **behime** | present | Den's paws |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **begin** | present | Den's years en | fer ter sing |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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