--- title: Well, Brer Rabbit rid Brer Fox up, he did, en tied 'im to de rack, e… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Well, Brer Rabbit rid Brer Fox up, he did, en tied 'im to de rack, en den sot out in de peazzer wid de gals a smokin' er his seegyar wid mo' proudness dan w'at you mos' ever see. Who acts: Brer, en, you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/10/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/10/) / 20 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 20 Well, Brer Rabbit rid Brer Fox up, he did, en tied 'im to de rack, en den sot out in de peazzer wid de gals a smokin' er his seegyar wid mo' proudness dan w'at you mos' ever see. **Who acts:** Brer, en, you · **What happens:** rid, fox up, do, tie, gal, mos · **To what, where:** im, smokin, proudness dan w'at This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized. 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, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:10:20 # text = Well, Brer Rabbit rid Brer Fox up, he did, en tied 'im to de rack, en den sot out in de peazzer wid de gals a smokin' er his seegyar wid mo' proudness dan w'at you mos' ever see. 1 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 rid rid VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 6 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 Fox fox VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 tied tie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 15 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 im im NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 rack rack NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 sot sot NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 24 out out ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 29 nsubj _ _ 27 peazzer peazzer NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 28 wid wid NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 30 gals gal VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 smokin smokin NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 er er ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 36 seegyar seegyar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 37 wid wid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 mo mo NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ _ 40 proudness proudness NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 41 dan dan X FW _ 42 compound _ _ 42 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 appos _ _ 43 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 mos mos VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 47 punct _ _ 46 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 47 advmod _ _ 47 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rid** | past | Brer | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fox up** | infinitive | Brer | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **do** | past | Brer | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **tie** | past | en | im | | | | to de rack | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent im=Patient to rack=Co-Patient | | 5 | **gal** | present | | a smokin | | | | er en's seegyar wid mo | tree rules | | 6 | **mos** | present | you | proudness dan w'at *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | ever | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/10/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/10/21/) - ↑ back to [VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/10/)