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title: She des hilt on, en de Brer Rabbit lose de use er his feet in de sam… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: She des hilt on, en de Brer Rabbit lose de use er his feet in de same way. Who acts: Baby, de. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 29

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She des hilt on, en de Brer Rabbit lose de use er his feet in de same way.

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**Who acts:** Baby, de · **What happens:** lose, use · **To what, where:** feet, de same way

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baby, de), 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:pg2306:5:29
# text = She des hilt on, en de Brer Rabbit lose de use er his feet in de same way.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
2	des	des	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hilt	hilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	de	de	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	nsubj	_	_
12	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
13	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | present | Baby |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | present | de | Brer's feet |  | de same way |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |

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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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