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title: "'No I ain't dead, nudder,' sez Brer Fox, sezee. ' — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'No I ain't dead, nudder,' sez Brer Fox, sezee. ' Who acts: I. 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 every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 37

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"'No I ain't dead, nudder,' sez Brer Fox, sezee. '

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not be, say · **To what, where:** Brer Fox · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I), 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:pg2306:10:37
# text = "'No I ain't dead, nudder,' sez Brer Fox, sezee. '
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	nudder	nudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
12	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present |  | Brer Fox and sezee |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic |

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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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