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title: "Den, atter some mo' palaver, Brer Fox make a bargain dat Mr. Buzzar… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Den, atter some mo' palaver, Brer Fox make a bargain dat Mr. Buzzard wuz ter watch de hole, en keep Brer Rabbit dar wiles Brer Fox went atter his axe. Who acts: Den, palaver, bargain dat, Brer Fox. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 39

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"Den, atter some mo' palaver, Brer Fox make a bargain dat Mr. Buzzard wuz ter watch de hole, en keep Brer Rabbit dar wiles Brer Fox went atter his axe.

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**Who acts:** Den, palaver, bargain dat, Brer Fox, mo · **What happens:** atter, make, watch, keep, go, palaver · **To what, where:** de hole, Brer dar wiles, axe

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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 (Den, palaver, bargain dat, Brer Fox), 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:pg2306:10:39
# text = "Den, atter some mo' palaver, Brer Fox make a bargain dat Mr. Buzzard wuz ter watch de hole, en keep Brer Rabbit dar wiles Brer Fox went atter his axe.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	atter	atter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	palaver	palaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:desc	_	_
17	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	watch	watch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
21	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	compound	_	_
22	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
26	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
27	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
28	dar	dar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	wiles	wile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
30	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	atter	atter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	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 | **atter** *in a quote* | present | Den |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | present | some mo's palaver and Brer Fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **watch** *in a quote* | present | a bargain dat | de hole and en |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** *in a quote* | infinitive | a bargain dat *not said here* | Brer dar wiles |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wile=Theme |
| 5 | **go** *in a quote* | past | Brer Fox | Brer dar wiles *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **atter** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brer Fox *not said here* | Fox's axe |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **palaver** *in a quote* |  | some mo |  |  |  |  |  | nom palaver «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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