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title: Dar wuz a considerbul flutter whar Brer Rabbit struck de bushes, en… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dar wuz a considerbul flutter whar Brer Rabbit struck de bushes, en Brer Fox sorter hang 'roun' fer ter see w'at wuz gwineter happen. Who acts: Dar wuz, Brer Fox sorter, w'at. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 29

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Dar wuz a considerbul flutter whar Brer Rabbit struck de bushes, en Brer Fox sorter hang 'roun' fer ter see w'at wuz gwineter happen.

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**Who acts:** Dar wuz, Brer Fox sorter, w'at · **What happens:** strike, hang, see, happen · **To what, where:** bushes, roun fer ter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dar wuz, Brer Fox sorter, w'at), 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:pg2306:7:29
# text = Dar wuz a considerbul flutter whar Brer Rabbit struck de bushes, en Brer Fox sorter hang 'roun' fer ter see w'at wuz gwineter happen.
1	Dar	Dar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	considerbul	considerbul	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	flutter	flutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	whar	whar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
24	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	wuz	wuz	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past | Dar wuz | de's bushes |  |  |  | en *obl* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bush=Patient |
| 2 | **hang** | infinitive | Brer Fox sorter | roun fer ter |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ter=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | Brer Fox sorter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **happen** | infinitive | w'at and wuz gwineter |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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