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title: En wid dat Brer Rabbit lipt out er de do' and dodge 'mong the bushes… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: En wid dat Brer Rabbit lipt out er de do' and dodge 'mong the bushes, en sot dar watchin' for Brer Fox; en he ain't watch long, nudder, kaze Brer Fox flung off de flannil en crope out er de house en got whar he could cloze in on Brer Rabbit, en bimeby Brer Rabbit holler out: 'Oh, Brer Fox! Who acts:
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 35

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En wid dat Brer Rabbit lipt out er de do' and dodge 'mong the bushes, en sot dar watchin' for Brer Fox; en he ain't watch long, nudder, kaze Brer Fox flung off de flannil en crope out er de house en got whar he could cloze in on Brer Rabbit, en bimeby Brer Rabbit holler out: 'Oh, Brer Fox!

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**Who acts:** En, Brer, de house en · **What happens:** wi, lipt out, do, dodge, not watch, fling off · **To what, where:** en, er, mong, long nudder, whar, bimeby holler

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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 (En, Brer, de house 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:pg2306:4:35
# text = En wid dat Brer Rabbit lipt out er de do' and dodge 'mong the bushes, en sot dar watchin' for Brer Fox; en he ain't watch long, nudder, kaze Brer Fox flung off de flannil en crope out er de house en got whar he could cloze in on Brer Rabbit, en bimeby Brer Rabbit holler out: 'Oh, Brer Fox!
1	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	lipt	lipt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat:foreign	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	dodge	dodge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	mong	mong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	sot	sot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	watchin	watchin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
28	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	nudder	nudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	_
40	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
41	off	off	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	de	de	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	flannil	flannil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	crope	crope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
46	out	out	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	51	advmod	_	_
48	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
49	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
51	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	advcl	_	_
52	whar	whar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
54	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	cloze	cloze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	xcomp	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	on	on	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	_
59	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	65	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
61	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	compound	_	_
62	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	compound	_	_
63	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	appos	_	_
64	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	63	flat	_	_
65	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	_
66	out	out	ADP	RP	_	55	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	72	punct	_	_
68	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	72	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	72	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
71	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	72	compound	_	_
72	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wi** | past | En | en |  |  |  | Brer Fox *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lipt out** | past | Brer  dat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | present | Brer  dat *not said here* | er |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dodge** | infinitive | Brer  dat *not said here* | mong and the bushes and en and sot dar watchin |  |  |  | for Brer Fox | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent mong=Location |
| 5 | **not** **watch** | infinitive | En *not said here* | long nudder and kaze |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nudder=Theme |
| 6 | **fling off** | past | Brer | long nudder and kaze *not said here* |  |  |  | de en crope | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nudder=Theme |
| 7 | **get** | past | de house en | whar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **cloze out** | could | Brer | bimeby holler |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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