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title: Brer Fox amble on twel he git in de long lane, outer sight er Miss M… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Fox amble on twel he git in de long lane, outer sight er Miss Meadows's house, en den he tu'n loose, he did. Who acts: house, amble. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 24

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Brer Fox amble on twel he git in de long lane, outer sight er Miss Meadows's house, en den he tu'n loose, he did.

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**Who acts:** house, amble · **What happens:** tu'n, do · **To what, where:** git

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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 (house, amble), 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:pg2306:10:24
# text = Brer Fox amble on twel he git in de long lane, outer sight er Miss Meadows's house, en den he tu'n loose, he did.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	amble	amble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	compound	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	lane	lane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
15	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
16	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Meadows	Meadows	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	tu'n	tu'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
25	loose	loose	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tu'n** |  | Miss Meadows's house and en den |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past | amble | git in de long lane and outer sight and er tu'n *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent git=Eventuality |

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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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