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title: Better come git it while hit's fresh,' and wid dat Brer Rabbit gallo… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Better come git it while hit's fresh,' and wid dat Brer Rabbit gallop off home. Who acts: you, 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 37

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Better come git it while hit's fresh,' and wid dat Brer Rabbit gallop off home.

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**Who acts:** you, Brer · **What happens:** come, gallop off · **To what, where:** git, wid dat

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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 (you, 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:pg2306:4:37
# text = Better come git it while hit's fresh,' and wid dat Brer Rabbit gallop off home.
1	Better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
5	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	gallop	gallop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	home	home	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* | git |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **gallop off** | present | Brer | wid dat *not said here* |  |  |  | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dat=Agent |

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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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