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title: "Uncle Remus, did the Rabbit have to go clean away when he got loose… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Uncle Remus, did the Rabbit have to go clean away when he got loose from the Tar-Baby?" Who acts: Uncle, Rabbit. 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 6

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"Uncle Remus, did the Rabbit have to go clean away when he got loose from the Tar-Baby?"

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**Who acts:** Uncle, Rabbit · **What happens:** do, have, go away, get · **To what, where:** Tar Baby · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Uncle, Rabbit), 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:pg2306:9:6
# text = "Uncle Remus, did the Rabbit have to go clean away when he got loose from the Tar-Baby?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
16	loose	loose	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	Tar	Tar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Baby	Baby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Uncle |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go away** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, clean *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **get** *in a quote* | past | Rabbit |  |  | the Tar Baby |  | loose *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from baby=Destination |

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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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