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title: Mr. Rabbit see de Fox, en he sass um en jaws um-- (Hey O! — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Rabbit see de Fox, en he sass um en jaws um-- (Hey O! Who acts: Mr. Rabbit, Rabbit. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 56

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Mr. Rabbit see de Fox, en he sass um en jaws um-- (Hey O!

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**Who acts:** Mr. Rabbit, Rabbit · **What happens:** see, sass · **To what, where:** de Fox, jaws um

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr. Rabbit, 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:pg2306:41:56
# text = Mr. Rabbit see de Fox, en he sass um en jaws um-- (Hey O!
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sass	sass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	um	um	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	jaws	jaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	compound	_	_
13	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Hey	hey	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
17	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | infinitive | Mr. Rabbit | de Fox |  |  |  | en *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fox=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sass** | present | Rabbit | jaws um |  |  |  |  | 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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