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title: Brer Fox fa'rly to' up de groun' he did, en he jump so high en he ju… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Fox fa'rly to' up de groun' he did, en he jump so high en he jump so quick dat he mighty nigh snatch his own tail off. Who acts: 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 o
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 30

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Brer Fox fa'rly to' up de groun' he did, en he jump so high en he jump so quick dat he mighty nigh snatch his own tail off.

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**Who acts:** amble · **What happens:** ' up, do, jump, snatch off · **To what, where:** de groun, Brer en, high en, own tail

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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 (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:pg2306:10:30
# text = Brer Fox fa'rly to' up de groun' he did, en he jump so high en he jump so quick dat he mighty nigh snatch his own tail off.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
2	Fox	fox	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	1	appos	_	_
3	fa'rly	fa'rly	X	RB	_	2	goeswith	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	compound	_	_
8	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	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	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	jump	jump	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	jump	jump	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	ccomp	_	_
26	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	snatch	snatch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	off	off	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **' up** | to-infinitive | amble *not said here* | de groun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past | amble | de groun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent groun=Eventuality |
| 3 | **jump** | present | amble | Brer en |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme en=Trajectory |
| 4 | **jump** | present | amble | high en |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme en=Trajectory |
| 5 | **snatch off** | present | amble *not said here* | amble's own tail |  |  |  | nigh *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=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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