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title: Dey kep' on gwine on dis way twel bimeby Brer Fox lay down en roll o… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dey kep' on gwine on dis way twel bimeby Brer Fox lay down en roll over, he did, en dis sorter onsettle Brer Rabbit, but by de time Brer Fox got back on his footses agin, Brer Rabbit wuz gwine thoo de underbresh mo' samer dan a race-hoss. Who acts: Dey, en, Brer Fox, Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 31

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Dey kep' on gwine on dis way twel bimeby Brer Fox lay down en roll over, he did, en dis sorter onsettle Brer Rabbit, but by de time Brer Fox got back on his footses agin, Brer Rabbit wuz gwine thoo de underbresh mo' samer dan a race-hoss.

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**Who acts:** Dey, en, Brer Fox, Brer · **What happens:** kep, lie down, roll over, do, get back, thoo · **To what, where:** gwine, dis sorter onsettle, footses agin, dan

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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 (Dey, en, Brer Fox, Brer), 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:pg2306:10:31
# text = Dey kep' on gwine on dis way twel bimeby Brer Fox lay down en roll over, he did, en dis sorter onsettle Brer Rabbit, but by de time Brer Fox got back on his footses agin, Brer Rabbit wuz gwine thoo de underbresh mo' samer dan a race-hoss.
1	Dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kep	kep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	bimeby	bimeby	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	roll	roll	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	over	over	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	onsettle	onsettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
26	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
27	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
33	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
36	back	back	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	footses	foots	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	compound	_	_
40	agin	agin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
43	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	flat	_	_
44	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
45	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	thoo	thoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	_
47	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	49	compound	_	_
48	underbresh	underbresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	49	punct	_	_
51	samer	sam	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	46	conj	_	_
52	dan	dan	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	46	nmod	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
54	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	hoss	hoss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kep** | infinitive | Dey |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie down** | past |  |  |  | gwine on way twel  Brer Fox |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **roll over** | present | en |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | past | en | dis sorter onsettle |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent onsettle=Eventuality |
| 5 | **get back** | past | Brer Fox |  |  | en's footses agin | time |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on agin=Source |
| 6 | **thoo** |  | Brer | dan |  |  |  |  | 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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