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title: Brer Rabbit look all roun', he did, but he ain't see no dinner. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Rabbit look all roun', he did, but he ain't see no dinner. Who acts: Brer. 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 clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 29

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Brer Rabbit look all roun', he did, but he ain't see no dinner.

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**Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** look, do, not see · **To what, where:** roun, dinner

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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), 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:pg2306:4:29
# text = Brer Rabbit look all roun', he did, but he ain't see no dinner.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	ai	ai	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | infinitive | Brer | all roun |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme roun=Attribute |
| 2 | **do** | past | Brer | all roun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roun=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **see** |  | Brer | no dinner |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dinner=Stimulus |

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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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