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title: Brer Fox had de 'vantage er de grip, he did, en he hilt 'im right do… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Fox had de 'vantage er de grip, he did, en he hilt 'im right down ter de groun'. Who acts: Brer. 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 28

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Brer Fox had de 'vantage er de grip, he did, en he hilt 'im right down ter de groun'.

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**Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** have, do, hilt · **To what, where:** de

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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 (Brer), 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:pg2306:11:28
# text = Brer Fox had de 'vantage er de grip, he did, en he hilt 'im right down ter de groun'.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	vantage	vantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
7	er	er	X	FW	_	9	compound	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	_	_
9	grip	grip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	hilt	hilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	im	im	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	right	right	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	compound	_	_
23	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Brer | de |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hilt** |  | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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