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title: Den Brer Fox, he lope off, he did, en Mr. Buzzard, he tuck up his st… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Brer Fox, he lope off, he did, en Mr. Buzzard, he tuck up his stan' at de hole. Who acts: Den, en. 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 40

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Den Brer Fox, he lope off, he did, en Mr. Buzzard, he tuck up his stan' at de hole.

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**Who acts:** Den, en · **What happens:** lope off, do, tuck up · **To what, where:** Buzzard, stan, de hole

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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, 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:pg2306:10:40
# text = Den Brer Fox, he lope off, he did, en Mr. Buzzard, he tuck up his stan' at de hole.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lope	lope	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:desc	_	_
14	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	tuck	tuck	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lope off** | infinitive | Den | Buzzard  Mr. |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past | den |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tuck up** | infinitive | en | en's stan |  | de hole |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent at hole=Trajectory |

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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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