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title: Den Brer Rabbit squall out dat ef de Tar-Baby don't tu'n 'im loose h… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Brer Rabbit squall out dat ef de Tar-Baby don't tu'n 'im loose he butt 'er cranksided. Who acts: Den, im, en den. 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 31

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Den Brer Rabbit squall out dat ef de Tar-Baby don't tu'n 'im loose he butt 'er cranksided.

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**Who acts:** Den, im, en den · **What happens:** squall out, do, loose, butt · **To what, where:** tu'n

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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 (Den, im, en den), 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:pg2306:5:31
# text = Den Brer Rabbit squall out dat ef de Tar-Baby don't tu'n 'im loose he butt 'er cranksided.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	squall	squall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	dat	dat	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
8	de	de	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Tar	Tar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Baby	Baby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	tu'n	tu'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	im	im	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	loose	loose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	butt	butt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	cranksided	cranksided	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squall out** *speech: other* | present | Den |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | Den *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dat ef de Tar and Baby | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **loose** | past | im | tu'n |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **butt** |  | en den *= den* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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