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title: Brer Rabbit, he sot up des ez cool ez a cowcumber, he did, en let em… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Rabbit, he sot up des ez cool ez a cowcumber, he did, en let em run on. Who acts: Brer, en, em. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 15

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Brer Rabbit, he sot up des ez cool ez a cowcumber, he did, en let em run on.

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**Who acts:** Brer, en, em · **What happens:** sot, do, let, run on · **To what, where:** en, em

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives 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, en, em), 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:pg2306:9:15
# text = Brer Rabbit, he sot up des ez cool ez a cowcumber, he did, en let em run on.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sot	sot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
7	des	des	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
8	ez	ez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
9	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	ez	ez	X	FW	_	12	compound	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cowcumber	cowcumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
19	em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sot** |  | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past | Brer | en |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | en *not said here* | em *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **run on** | infinitive | em *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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