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title: "'Run yer, Brer Buzzard, en look ef dis ain't Brer Rabbit's foot han… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Run yer, Brer Buzzard, en look ef dis ain't Brer Rabbit's foot hanging down yer.' Who acts: you, en, foot. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 25

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"'Run yer, Brer Buzzard, en look ef dis ain't Brer Rabbit's foot hanging down yer.'

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**Who acts:** you, en, foot · **What happens:** run, look, hang · **To what, where:** yer, ef dis ai

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, en, foot), 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:pg2306:11:25
# text = "'Run yer, Brer Buzzard, en look ef dis ain't Brer Rabbit's foot hanging down yer.'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	yer	yer	PRON	PRP	Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
7	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	ef	ef	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
15	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
19	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	yer	y	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | yer |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme yer=Trajectory |
| 2 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | en | ef dis ai |  |  |  | Brer Rabbit's foot *obl* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ai=Attribute |
| 3 | **hang** *in a quote* | gerund | Brer Rabbit's foot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | y *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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