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title: Brer Rabbit wuz bleedzed fer ter fling back some er his sass, en he… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Rabbit wuz bleedzed fer ter fling back some er his sass, en he holler out: Who acts: Brer, bleedzed ter fling. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 32

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Brer Rabbit wuz bleedzed fer ter fling back some er his sass, en he holler out:

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**Who acts:** Brer, bleedzed ter fling · **What happens:** fling back, er out, holler · **To what, where:** sass

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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 (Brer, bleedzed ter fling), 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:pg2306:7:32
# text = Brer Rabbit wuz bleedzed fer ter fling back some er his sass, en he holler out:
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	bleedzed	bleedzed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	fling	fling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	nsubj	_	_
10	er	er	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	sass	sass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fling back** |  | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **er out** | past | bleedzed ter fling | wuz's sass and en and holler |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **holler** *speech: other* |  | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | 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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