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title: Brer Fox he lit out atter 'im, he did, en he push Brer Rabbit so clo… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Fox he lit out atter 'im, he did, en he push Brer Rabbit so close dat it wuz 'bout all he could do fer ter git in a holler tree. Who acts: Brer Fox, Fox, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, with its dependency tre
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 32

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Brer Fox he lit out atter 'im, he did, en he push Brer Rabbit so close dat it wuz 'bout all he could do fer ter git in a holler tree.

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**Who acts:** Brer Fox, Fox, en · **What happens:** light out, do, push · **To what, where:** atter, Brer Rabbit, fer ter git, holler tree

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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 (Brer Fox, Fox, en), 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:pg2306:10:32
# text = Brer Fox he lit out atter 'im, he did, en he push Brer Rabbit so close dat it wuz 'bout all he could do fer ter git in a holler tree.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lit	light	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	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	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
16	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
20	dat	dat	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	bout	bout	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nmod	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	amod	_	_
30	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light out** | past | Brer Fox | atter and im |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent atter=Product |
| 2 | **do** | past | Fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **push** | infinitive | en | Brer Rabbit |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | could | en | fer ter git |  | a holler tree |  |  | 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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