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title: De raccoon totes a bushy tail, De 'possum totes no ha'r, Mr. Rabbit,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De raccoon totes a bushy tail, De 'possum totes no ha'r, Mr. Rabbit, he come skippin' by, He ain't got none ter spar'. Who acts: De raccoon, possum, raccoon. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, 2.a Plantation Serenade, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, 2.a Plantation Serenade, sentence 3

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De raccoon totes a bushy tail, De 'possum totes no ha'r, Mr. Rabbit, he come skippin' by, He ain't got none ter spar'.

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**Who acts:** De raccoon, possum, raccoon · **What happens:** tote, come, not get · **To what, where:** bushy tail, ha'r, skippin, none ter spar

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, 2.a Plantation Serenade. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De raccoon, possum, raccoon), 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:pg2306:43:3
# text = De raccoon totes a bushy tail, De 'possum totes no ha'r, Mr. Rabbit, he come skippin' by, He ain't got none ter spar'.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	raccoon	raccoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	totes	tote	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	bushy	bushy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	'	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	possum	possum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	totes	tote	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	ha'r	ha'r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:desc	_	_
16	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	skippin	skippin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
28	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	30	compound	_	_
29	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	spar	spar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tote** | present | De raccoon | a bushy tail |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme |
| 2 | **tote** | present | De's possum | no ha'r |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ha'r=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | present | raccoon | skippin |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skippin=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **get** | present · passive | raccoon | none ter spar |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spar=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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