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title: Brer Rabbit come prancin' 'long twel he spy de Tar-Baby, en den he f… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Rabbit come prancin' 'long twel he spy de Tar-Baby, en den he fotch up on his behime legs like he wuz 'stonished. Who acts: Brer. 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 ever
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 6

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Brer Rabbit come prancin' 'long twel he spy de Tar-Baby, en den he fotch up on his behime legs like he wuz 'stonished.

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**Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** come, spy, fotch up, stonish · **To what, where:** prancin, long twel, en den, behime legs

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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 (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:pg2306:5:6
# text = Brer Rabbit come prancin' 'long twel he spy de Tar-Baby, en den he fotch up on his behime legs like he wuz 'stonished.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	prancin	prancin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	spy	spy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	Tar	Tar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Baby	Baby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	fotch	fotch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	behime	behime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	stonished	stonish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Brer | prancin |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prancin=Theme |
| 2 | **spy** | present | Brer | long twel |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer de=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fotch up** | present | Brer | en den *not said here* |  | Brer's behime legs |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stonish** | participle |  | Brer's behime legs *not said here* |  |  |  | like wuz | 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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