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title: W'en he got dar, Brer Rabbit wuz spectin' un 'im, en de do' wuz shet… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: W'en he got dar, Brer Rabbit wuz spectin' un 'im, en de do' wuz shet fas'. Who acts: W'en, en. 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 25

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W'en he got dar, Brer Rabbit wuz spectin' un 'im, en de do' wuz shet fas'.

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**Who acts:** W'en, en · **What happens:** get, wuz · **To what, where:** Rabbit wuz spectin, shet fas

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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 (W'en, en), 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:pg2306:9:25
# text = W'en he got dar, Brer Rabbit wuz spectin' un 'im, en de do' wuz shet fas'.
1	W'en	W'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	dar	dar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	spectin	spectin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	im	im	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat:foreign	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	wuz	wuz	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
20	shet	shet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	fas	fa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | W'en | Rabbit wuz spectin |  |  |  | dar *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **wuz** | present · do-support | en | shet fas |  |  |  |  | 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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